Move JSON parser from CmdStan to Stan/io

[WardBrian]

Submission Checklist

• Run unit tests: ./runTests.py src/test/unit
• Run cpplint: make cpplint
• Declare copyright holder and open-source license: see below

Summary

This is the first half of #3142 and undoes #2803

Intended Effect

Move the JSON parser code from cmdstan to this repo. Tests are also moved.

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[bob-carpenter]

I can review this when it's ready as long as that's today or early tomorrow or some time later this week.

[WardBrian]

@bob-carpenter this should be ready as-is; it's just a copy-paste job with some renaming of namespaces.

[bob-carpenter]

thanks. the renaming and updates to make all look good.

[WardBrian]

I'm going to let the CI here and stan-dev/cmdstan#1120 finish before merging

[rok-cesnovar]

The upstream tests fail because the CmdStan PR was merged, but since all other tests pass feel free to merge.

[WardBrian]

@rok-cesnovar will that prevent the bot from updating the sub modules?

[rok-cesnovar]

I think it should be fine. The test that failed doesnt run on develop I believe.