Re: [Json] Regarding JSON text sequence ambiguities (Re: serializing sequences of JSON values)

Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta@gmail.com> Tue, 11 March 2014 03:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Regarding JSON text sequence ambiguities (Re: serializing sequences of JSON values)
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:06 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Nico Williams scripsit:
>
> > But there's
> > still an ambiguity in an online parser: is online parsing of
> > "[nulltrue]" to produce an array element value of null followed by an
> > error, or is it to produce just the one error?
>
> If it's an error, I don't care what junk it has already produced,
> so I'm quite indifferent to that.
>


Based on feature requests I received for handling this specific case (for
Jackson), I would suggest producing error as soon as practical; in this
case once "nullt" has been decoded from input.
At least this was the behavior that was considered appropriate by users;
and specifically NOT to allow intermediate production of valid token for
'null' (doing which was reported as a bug).

-+ Tatu +-