#50867 [Opn->Bgs]: json_encode can't handle empty string keys

ID: 50867 Updated by: jani@php.net Reported By: r at rcrowley dot org -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: JSON related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.3.1 New Comment: It can not work in PHP since you can not have empty object property name. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-01-27 22:32:51] r at rcrowley dot org Description: ------------ The specification outlined at http://json.org/ indicates that the empty string is a perfectly valid key in a JSON data structure. JSON implementations in Python and Ruby agree. PHP appears to go out of its way to handle the empty string as as key in a non-standard way. Reproduce code: --------------- $ php -r 'echo json_encode(json_decode("{\"\":\"foo\"}")), "\n";' {"_empty_":"foo"} $ Expected result: ---------------- I expect to see exactly the same output from PHP as seen from Ruby and Python: $ ruby -rjson -e 'puts JSON.parse("{\"\":\"foo\"}").to_json' {"":"foo"} $ python -c 'import json; print(json.dumps(json.loads("{\"\":\"foo\"}")))' {"": "foo"} $ Actual result: -------------- $ php -r 'echo json_encode(json_decode("{\"\":\"foo\"}")), "\n";' {"_empty_":"foo"} $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50867&edit=1