Re: New JSON Parser

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - I know it is invalid - I did it deliberately because I thought you had said that was part of the value of the tool - that it didn't just quit with an error.  



> On Jul 23, 2020, at 5:12 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jon,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. In regard to "an OS offering", this parser is
> still a work in process and I don't have any specific plans yet, except to
> publish that web link, which allows developers to generate a report from a
> JSON stream. I think the report may be useful, generally.
>
> In regard to your 2nd example, the JSON is invalid. Most parsers would
> simply report an error. So I'm not sure what you might have expected.
>
> When you want to include name-value pairs in arrays, they need to be
> enclosed in braces. For example:
>
> [
> { "name" : X , "another" : 12 },
> { "name" : X , "another" : 12 },
> { "name" : X , "another" : 12 }
> ]
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:18 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Is this going to be an OS offering Nathan?
> >
> > I did a quick test and didn't get what I expected.
> >
> > This:
> > { "name" : X , "another" : 12 } gives what I would expect namely nodes
> > called name and another with values X and 12 respectively.
> >
> > But this:
> >
> > [ "name" : X , "another" : 12 ]  gives me two un-named nodes withe the
> > values name and X respectively.  The second element (another) is not
> > reported at all.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jon
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