Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be unique.

[Stephan Beal <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> wrote:

> In Section 2.2:
> Current:
>    The names within an object SHOULD be unique.
> Proposed:
>    If the names within an object are not unique, the result of parsing the
>    object is unpredictable, and the parse may even fail completely. Thus,
>    the names within an object SHOULD be unique.
>

+1 for anything along those lines.


> In Section 4, add a new paragraph:
>    If a parser encounters an object with duplicate names, the parser MAY
>    fail to parse the JSON text; if the parser accepts objects with
> duplicate
>    names, it SHOULD accept only the last name/value pair that has the
>    duplicate name.
>

+1. That keeps (i think) any current implementation behaviours compliant
while making the intended/best-practice behaviour clear.

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