[Cbor] cbor.me issue with indefinite form round-trips

["Sipos, Brian J." <[e-mail]>]

All,

I can't find any specific issue tracker associated with the https://cbor.me
site, so I'm posting in this list because I know some maintainers also read
this list. Please let me know if there is a specific issue tracker that I
should be submitting to instead.

 

I recently ran into an issue where the decoder does not properly indicate
EDN for indefinite length containers even though the encoder does properly
handle them. This means the tool will not fully round-trip indefinite form
of arrays and maps which makes dealing with some structures more complicated
than it seems like it should be.

 

For example, these inputs will encode properly but then going back to
decoding will remove the indefinite-length indicating underscore:

[_1,2]

{_1:2}

 

I think this tool is great to have and would like to see this little
discrepancy fixed.

 

Brian S.