Bug #52829 [PATCH]: json_decode looses data

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52829&edit=1 ID: 52829 Patch added by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: pzbowen at gmail dot com Summary: json_decode looses data Status: Open Type: Bug Package: JSON related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.14 Block user comment: N New Comment: The following patch has been added/updated: Patch Name: json-decode-warnings Revision: 1284443322 URL: http://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=52829&patch=json-decode-warnings&revision=1284443322 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-13 22:03:03] pzbowen at gmail dot com Agreed, no easy way to handle it, so it should return an error when this situation is encountered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-13 21:49:13] kalle@php.net I can't see any really easy way to achieve this since properties and array keys are unique in PHP. Perhaps some overloading with objects but that would be dirty/hackish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-13 20:31:49] pzbowen at gmail dot com Description: ------------ According to RFC 4627, section 2.2, "The names within an object SHOULD be unique." This is only a SHOULD not a MUST, so the following is valid {"foo":2,"foo":3} Unfortunately in PHP this only returns the last object member. Test script: --------------- var_dump(json_decode('{"foo":2,"foo":3}')); Expected result: ---------------- an object with a way of accessing both members or an error raised by json_decode Actual result: -------------- object(stdClass)#1 (1) { ["foo"]=> int(3) } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52829&edit=1