Re: New JSON parser

From: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:37:54 +0000
Subject: Re: New JSON parser
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Hi,

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Jakub Zelenka <bukka@php.net> wrote:
> I need to do more testing before creating RFC for replacing the current
> parser. There is still space for further improvements. If anyone has any
> ideas, please let me know. Or if you could test it, that would be great
> too! ;)

At least for the decoding part, it might be worth to look at the
"Improving JSON" proposal (http://bolinfest.com/essays/json.html).
tl;dr: support trailing or automatic line-end commas, //-style
comments and keys not wrapped in "s, basically extend JSON syntax to
ES5.

I think it would be really cool if the new parser could (maybe with a
option "JSON_NO_STRICT_PARSING") implement these enhancements to ease
hand-writing of JSON files.

Also, will end-users be able to get the JSON parser error message?
Currently, all you get is a NULL returned when you have a parse error
somewhere in your JSON - and it's a nightmare to debug with this.

Marco


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