GNU bug report logs - #42994
27.1; json-serialize unable to serialize JSON values

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 12:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 46486

Found in versions 27.1, 28.0.50

Done: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 42994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 42994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42994: 27.1; json-serialize unable to serialize JSON values
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:53:28 +0300

> From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 13:24:58 +0100
> 
> 
> According to the [JSON spec](https://www.json.org/json-en.html),
> everything is a value and every value is a valid JSON, which means
> literal string, numbers, and true, false and null are also valid JSON
> values, but `json-serialize` is unable to serialize literals. This is
> wrong and behaviorialy different from the elisp-based `json-encode`.

Thank you for your report.  To allow us to process this issue quickly
and efficiently, please provide a couple of examples where
json-serialize is unable to serialize literals.
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