[webkit-dev] Internal JSON Parsing

[Adam Barth]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Pavel Feldman <pfeldman at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Pavel Feldman <pfeldman at chromium.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Check out InspectorValue.  It should be renamed to JSONValue, but it
>>> >> should meet your needs.
>>> >
>>> > InspectorValue is not intended to be used as a full fledged JSON parser.
>>> > It
>>> > only covers subset of the standard that is sufficient for the inspector
>>> > operation. The spec requires that you "Return the result of invoking the
>>> > parse function of the JSON object defined in ECMAScript" and I wonder
>>> > why
>>> > you are willing to do otherwise.
>>>
>>> Which spec?  Is that text in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627 ?
>>>
>>
>> I was referring to
>> the http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#json-response-entity-body mentioned
>> in the bug this thread is about.
>
> Ah.  That spec is likely wrong.  I'll email the working group.

Actually, I take it back.  You're right.  We need to use the
engine-specific JSON parsing implementation because we're returning
these objects to the JavaScript engine.

It's likely the correct way to handle this with custom bindings, sadly.

Adam