From: Rolando Pereira <rolando_pereira@sapo.pt>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Rolando Pereira <rolando_pereira@sapo.pt>, 15097@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15097: 24.3.50; json.el can't encode lists of lists
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:09:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2p9coz4.fsf@sapo.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <es4narsont.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:55:50 -0400")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Rolando Pereira wrote:
>
>> The function `json-encode' can't encode a list thats composed only of other
>> lists, i.e. the following doesn't work:
>>
>> (json-encode '((1 2 3))) => Error: (json-key-format 1)
> [...]
>> (ert-should (string= (json-encode '((1 2 3))) "[[1,2,3]]")) ; doesn't work
>
> I have no idea what this stuff is supposed to do, but by inspection it
> treats such arguments as alists and requires that the key be encodable
> as a string. Eg this works
>
> (json-encode '((a 2 3))) -> "{\"a\":[2, 3]}"
>
> Your example fails because 1 is encoded as 1, not "1".
>
> Should the answer be "{\"1\":[2, 3]} or "[[1,2,3]]"?
Personally I was expecting the answer to be "[[1,2,3]]" i.e. turn the
'(1 2 3) list into a list and not an object.
Which, for the purposes of comparison, is similar to what the Lisp
library "cl-json" and the Python "json" library do:
* Common Lisp
CL-USER> (ql:quickload 'cl-json)
[...snip...]
CL-USER> (cl-json:encode-json '((1 2 3)))
[[1,2,3]]
NIL
CL-USER>
* Python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 1 2012, 05:16:07)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps([[1,2,3]])
'[[1, 2, 3]]'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-14 22:44 bug#15097: 24.3.50; json.el can't encode lists of lists Rolando Pereira
2013-08-15 1:55 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-19 22:09 ` Rolando Pereira
2013-08-19 22:09 ` Rolando Pereira [this message]
2013-08-20 17:04 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-20 20:16 ` Edward O'Connor
2014-03-23 6:40 ` bug#15097: Wontfix, apparently Daniel Colascione
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