[webkit-dev] JSON native parser

[Husam Senussi]

On 11 Mar 2009, at 04:44, Adam Barth wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Ariya Hidayat
> <ariya.hidayat at trolltech.com> wrote:
>>> Those efforts have mostly stalled.  If you're interested in helping
>>> out, that would be much appreciated.  :)
>>
>> Adam, I am willing to help. Where and how do I start?
>
> Great!  There are a couple of folks interested in working on this, so
> we should be careful to avoid duplicating effort.
>
> I would start by reading the JSON RFC (it's pretty short):
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
>
> Next, I would read Firefox's implementation:
>
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/json.cpp
>
> For the precise JavaScript API, please see the ECMAScript 3.1 spec:
>
> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=es3.1:json_support
>
> We want to match Firefox's (and IE's) behavior exactly.  Then I would
> look at our https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20031 which has
> some possibly useful code.  If that code isn't useful, feel free to
> throw it away.
>
> Maciej recommends we implement this feature using our existing JSC
> lexer and a bison grammar.  I believe JSC already uses a bison grammar
> for JavaScript, so it might be worth adapting that for JSON.
>
> Adam
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I already started with bison grammar just looking into how to write JS  
Object to test the grammar.