[mjpa]

Wrote my own JSON parser (https://github.com/MJPA/SimpleJSON) a while ago... not sure how it's a minefield unless I'm missing something?

[SloopJon]

Perhaps you'd be interested to know that your JSONDemo program fails the following tests:

hang:

y_number_huge_exp.json

segfault:

n_structure_100000_opening_arrays.json

n_structure_open_array_object.json

fail:

n_number_then_00.json

n_string_unescaped_tab.json

n_structure_capitalized_True.json

[mjpa]

I would :)

Was going to run the tests myself later but needed a box with python3 on it!

[valarauca1]

Did you read the post?

The JSON standard(s) are very simple. But in practice this simplicity leads to a lot of edge cases. Very deeply nested structures, numbers that run on to infinity. The point of this post is testing various parsers against these malicious structures.

See this image: http://seriot.ch/json/pruned_results.png

[mjpa]

"In conclusion, JSON is not a data format you can rely on blindly." - that suggests the format is bad when it's highlighting problems with the parsers. I see it like saying "Plain text is a bad format because notepad bails on large files"

[valarauca1]

    In conclusion, NOUN1 is not a NOUN2 you can rely on blindly

This is true for everything. I don't see why this is evidence of anything. If you rely on any system blindly you are doing something wrong.