Re: RFC Idea - is_json - looking for feedback

Hi Juan, pt., 29 lip 2022, 16:26 użytkownik juan carlos morales < dev.juan.morales@gmail.com> napisał: > I am following the RFC guideline for the first time. ( > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto) > > As suggested there, I am here to get a feeling from you, regarding the > following RFC for PHP. > > # Change (draft): > > New function in php called like: > > is_json(string $string): bool > > ## Description > ### Parameters > string $string -> string to find out if is a valid JSON or not > > ### Return > Returns a bool. The function is capable to determine if the passed string > is a valid JSON (true) or not (false). > > # Why this function ? > > At the moment the only way to determine if a JSON-string is valid we have > to execute the json_decode() function. > > The drawback about this, is that json_decode() generates an in memory an > object/array (depending on parameters) while parsing the string; this leads > to a memory usage that is not needed (because we use memory for creating > the object/array) and also can cause an error for reaching the memory-limit > of the php process. > Personally I'd vote NO. Cheers, Michał Marcin Brzuchalski >