Re: [Json] Go JSON parser ignores the case of member names

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 10 March 2016 02:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Go JSON parser ignores the case of member names
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Rob Sayre scripsit:

> I understand the situation. I guess I don't agree there's a conformance
> problem here, since there are plenty of other APIs in the standard package
> that don't do this transformation, and even the API in question doesn't do
> this transformation for all arguments. They're right below the section
> James quoted.

Ah.  I didn't know that.

> BTW, here's how to get a similar effect using the widely-used Java library
> Jackson[0]:
> 
> ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
> objectMapper.configure(MapperFeature.ACCEPT_CASE_INSENSITIVE_PROPERTIES,
> true);

Sure, but this is a feature you have to enable specifically, not the
default.  But from what you are saying, the Go case mapping is not the
default either.

It's perfectly reasonable, given how much ill-formed or incorrect JSON
there is, to have relaxed modes.  It's just that the main mode should
be strict.

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