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Re: [Json] Proposed minimal change for duplicate names in objects

"Markus Lanthaler" <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> Mon, 08 July 2013 08:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposed minimal change for duplicate names in objects
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On Monday, July 08, 2013 9:17 AM, Vinny A wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:
>> Demonstrating my age, an old trick we've done that goes back to RFC-1123
>> is to say MUST NOT send, and then implementations MAY NOT process, and
>> if they do MUST process thusly...
> 
> Could people come to a consensus on this if the proposed wording was
> similar to the above? I.e "Implementations MUST NOT send duplicate names;
> if received, parsers MAY NOT process the JSON, instead issuing an error.
> If implementations insist on supporting duplicated names, they MUST
> process in the following manner (insert boilerplate warnings about
>  undesirable behavior)." 

I personally could certainly live with something like this but the "MUST NOT send" is problematic as such data exists and we shouldn't invalidate it. Changing that to SHOULD NOT would probably be something more people would be equally (un)happy with.


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