GNU bug report logs - #46486
28.0.50; json-parse-string missing support for key-less json strings

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Reported by: Thomas Hisch <thomas.hisch <at> ims.co.at>

Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 12:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 42994

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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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, Thomas Hisch <thomas.hisch <at> ims.co.at>
Cc: "46486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <46486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#46486: [External] : bug#46486: 28.0.50; json-parse-string missing support for key-less json strings
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:22:43 +0000

> OTOH, RFC 8259 does seem to allow any value type at the toplevel now,
> so we might as well support this.  I don’t have a strong opinion here.
> Using RFC 4627 semantics seems a bit safer and more conservative, but
> given that it’s considered obsoleted by RFC 8259, maybe we should
> switch to the semantics of the newer standard.

Sorry, my previous comment duplicates what you just said.

IMO, nowadays applications should generally
consider all possible JSON values as JSON
texts: objects, arrays, and scalars.
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