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

Vinny A <jsontest@yahoo.com> Fri, 07 June 2013 13:38 UTC

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From: Vinny A <jsontest@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:38:15 -0500
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Cc: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>, "json@ietf.org" <json@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] Allow any JSON value at the top level
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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?

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