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Re: [Json] Allow any JSON value at the top level

Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta@gmail.com> Fri, 07 June 2013 17:56 UTC

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From: Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] Allow any JSON value at the top level
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Vinny A <jsontest@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> On Jun 7, 2013, at 3:59 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> > Apart from auto-detection, one other result is that JSON texts no longer
> stream.  RFC 4627 texts are self-delimiting, the new ones wouldn't always
> be.  Of course, if you want to stream sequences of JSON texts, you could
> always limit those back to arrays or maps
>
> I'm +0 on this topic, partly for Carsten's reason, but also because this
> looks to be a breaking change.
>
> Do commonly used parsers support top level JSON values
>


Yes, at least on Java platform.

Follow-up question would be whether use cases exist for sending root-level
non-structured values: that I do not know. I do know that some JSON
validators struggle with this question (should it be allowed but flagged or
marked as error); and that suggests that usage exists.

-+ Tatu +-

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