Re: [PATCH] Generalized JSON output functions

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

The thing is - it's not only about whitespace, otherwise I would probably not bother with the generic interface. For my original problem, there is simply no way to do this correctly in an extension w/o copying over all of the logic from json.c, which I have to do right now, would rather not.

I am sorry - we are talking about JSON, not about any styled document. I disagree, so it has not be implemented as extension - the backport of JSON support is a extension.

Hm... I'm having a hard time making sense of that statement, sorry.

To reiterate: for my problem, that is escaping numerics that can potentially overflow[1] under ECMAScript standard, I want to be able to override the code that outputs the numeric converted to string.  There is no way in current implementation to do that *at all*, short of copying all the code involved in producing JSON output and changing it at certain points.  One could try re-parsing JSON instead, but that doesn't actually solve the issue, because type information is lost forever at that point.

The whitespace unification was a mere side-effect of the original effort on this patch.

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Best regards,

Alex

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/307179/what-is-javascripts-highest-integer-value-that-a-number-can-go-to-without-losin