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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Henry Minsky <henry.minsky@gmail.com>
Cc: 45032@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45032: 26.3; json-pretty-print of JSON with dict containing 't' as a key causes error
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 11:15:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dpxnah5.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJo0r8gyhDZnV5cSX3yWU5iQaGvL7fjDOLPADS3dTGbO8KW=CQ@mail.gmail.com> (Henry Minsky's message of "Thu, 3 Dec 2020 16:19:25 -0500")

Henry Minsky <henry.minsky@gmail.com> writes:

> If you run M-x json-pretty-print on this buffer contents:
>
> {"t": 259}
>
> You get an error
> Bad JSON object key: t
>
> It seems like the json parser is converting the string "t" into the
> symbol t which is being treated specially?

It's unfortunate that `json-read' is being ambiguous here.

true
=> t

{"t": 259}
=> ((t . 259))

So I don't know how to fix this.  We could add another kludge -- saying
that a boolean used as an object key "obviously" should be a string
instead (when converting back to JSON)?  Opinions?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03 21:19 bug#45032: 26.3; json-pretty-print of JSON with dict containing 't' as a key causes error Henry Minsky
2020-12-04 10:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-05 16:17   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-12-05 19:35     ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-05 22:13       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-12-06 13:37       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 17:02         ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-06 17:06           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 17:16             ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-07 13:39               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]                 ` <CAJo0r8gbrVk2wZatYS6_G7+7+tF_7VHO9KffrEMWanOK5BjuUg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-08 13:26                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 19:26           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-12 14:28             ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-12 21:25               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-13 13:19                 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-13 18:58                   ` Dmitry Gutov

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