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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
	"Theresa O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: two json.el bugs
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 18:30:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16aabb87-3130-41b8-968e-52bc5aea3956@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkSz7gcLPuxczZ5KNALRrWzvS=1SH0GRd5r0cWY0h3qtsQ@mail.gmail.com>

> We can't simply serialize/desterialize alists in key order
> because the order is reversed in Emacs. (In Emacs alists,
> if there are duplicates, the first one wins,
> in JSON the last one wins.)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you're talking about JSON objects then no, no particular
meaning or behavior is defined for duplicate fields (keys)
in a JSON object.

A given application that handles JSON object is free to
act as you say.  And it is free to act otherwise.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-28  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-05 17:51 two json.el bugs Theresa O'Connor
2017-05-05 18:44 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-05 19:25   ` Drew Adams
2017-05-20 15:51   ` [PATCH] Fix definition of whitespace in JSON Philipp Stephani
2017-05-20 17:28     ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-05-21 21:03       ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-27 13:32   ` two json.el bugs Philipp Stephani
2017-05-27 13:48 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-28  1:30   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-05-28 18:47     ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-28 22:12       ` Drew Adams
2017-05-28 22:44         ` Bruce V Chiarelli
2017-05-29  0:42           ` Drew Adams

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