Subject: Re: bug#32793: 27.0.50; json-parse-string doesn't have the equivalent of json.el's json-array-type

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:46:14 +0300

> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:26:23 +0300
> 
> On 21.09.2018 15:56, Xu Chunyang wrote:
> 
> > We can parse JSON Array as Lisp List with json.el, e.g.,
> > 
> > (let ((json-array-type 'list))
> >    (json-read-from-string "[1,2,3]"))
> > ;; => (1 2 3)
> > 
> > but the new json-parse-string doesn't have the equivalent, thus porting
> > existing code to using json-parse-string might be difficult.
> 
> I also stumbled on this problem when trying to port existing code to 
> native JSON.

Sounds like a simple extension of the existing code, so patches are
welcome to implement this feature.