Re: New JSON parser

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Marco Schuster <marco+php@m-s-d.eu> wrote: > > At least for the decoding part, it might be worth to look at the > "Improving JSON" proposal (http://bolinfest.com/essays/json.html). > tl;dr: support trailing or automatic line-end commas, //-style > comments and keys not wrapped in "s, basically extend JSON syntax to > ES5. > > I think it would be really cool if the new parser could (maybe with a > option "JSON_NO_STRICT_PARSING") implement these enhancements to ease > hand-writing of JSON files. > > The current implementation doesn't introduce any changes from the user point of view (except improved performance :) ). I want to keep it simple and not over complicate the proposal. I am sure that we can discuss further improvements if the new parser is accepted to the core. However it will require a new RFC and thread... :) Also, will end-users be able to get the JSON parser error message? > Currently, all you get is a NULL returned when you have a parse error > somewhere in your JSON - and it's a nightmare to debug with this. > > You can get some info using json_last_error(_msg). However it's not very useful because you can't identify the position of the error. I plan to improve that but again it's not gonna be in the current proposal. To sum it up. There are NO changes for PHP users! This is just internal change... ;) Thanks Jakub