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NAME
Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
SYNOPSIS
use Cpanel::JSON::XS;
# exported functions, they croak on error
# and expect/generate UTF-8
$utf8_encoded_json_text = encode_json $perl_hash_or_arrayref;
$perl_hash_or_arrayref = decode_json $utf8_encoded_json_text;
# OO-interface
$coder = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->ascii->pretty->allow_nonref;
$pretty_printed_unencoded = $coder->encode ($perl_scalar);
$perl_scalar = $coder->decode ($unicode_json_text);
# Note that 5.6 misses most smart utf8 and encoding functionalities
# of newer releases.
# Note that L<JSON::MaybeXS> will automatically use Cpanel::JSON::XS
# if available, at virtually no speed overhead either, so you should
# be able to just:
use JSON::MaybeXS;
# and do the same things, except that you have a pure-perl fallback now.
Note that this module will be replaced by a new JSON::Safe module soon,
with the same API just guaranteed safe defaults.
DESCRIPTION
This module converts Perl data structures to JSON and vice versa. Its
primary goal is to be *correct* and its secondary goal is to be *fast*.
To reach the latter goal it was written in C.
As this is the n-th-something JSON module on CPAN, what was the reason
to write yet another JSON module? While it seems there are many JSON
modules, none of them correctly handle all corner cases, and in most
cases their maintainers are unresponsive, gone missing, or not listening
to bug reports for other reasons.
See below for the cPanel fork.
See MAPPING, below, on how Cpanel::JSON::XS maps perl values to JSON
values and vice versa.
FEATURES
* correct Unicode handling
This module knows how to handle Unicode with Perl version higher
than 5.8.5, documents how and when it does so, and even documents
what "correct" means.
* round-trip integrity
When you serialize a perl data structure using only data types
supported by JSON and Perl, the deserialized data structure is
identical on the Perl level. (e.g. the string "2.0" doesn't suddenly
become "2" just because it looks like a number). There *are* minor
exceptions to this, read the MAPPING section below to learn about
those.
* strict checking of JSON correctness
There is no guessing, no generating of illegal JSON texts by
default, and only JSON is accepted as input by default. the latter
is a security feature.
* fast
Compared to other JSON modules and other serializers such as
Storable, this module usually compares favourably in terms of speed,
too.
* simple to use
This module has both a simple functional interface as well as an
object oriented interface.
* reasonably versatile output formats
You can choose between the most compact guaranteed-single-line
format possible (nice for simple line-based protocols), a pure-ASCII
format (for when your transport is not 8-bit clean, still supports
the whole Unicode range), or a pretty-printed format (for when you
want to read that stuff). Or you can combine those features in
whatever way you like.
cPanel fork
Since the original author MLEHMANN has no public bugtracker, this cPanel
fork sits now on github.
src repo: <https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS> original:
<http://cvs.schmorp.de/JSON-XS/>
RT: <https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/issues> or
<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Cpanel-JSON-XS>
Changes to JSON::XS
- bare hashkeys are now checked for utf8. (GH #209)
- stricter decode_json() as documented. non-refs are disallowed. safe by
default. added a 2nd optional argument. decode() honors now
allow_nonref.
- fixed encode of numbers for dual-vars. Different string
representations are preserved, but numbers with temporary strings which
represent the same number are here treated as numbers, not strings.
Cpanel::JSON::XS is a bit slower, but preserves numeric types better.
- numbers ending with .0 stray numbers, are not converted to integers.
[#63] dual-vars which are represented as number not integer (42+"bar" !=
5.8.9) are now encoded as number (=> 42.0) because internally it's now a
NOK type. However !!1 which is wrongly encoded in 5.8 as "1"/1.0 is
still represented as integer.
- different handling of inf/nan. Default now to null, optionally with
stringify_infnan() to "inf"/"nan". [#28, #32]
- added "binary" extension, non-JSON and non JSON parsable, allows
"\xNN" and "\NNN" sequences.
- 5.6.2 support; sacrificing some utf8 features (assuming bytes
all-over), no multi-byte unicode characters with 5.6.
- interop for true/false overloading. JSON::XS, JSON::PP and Mojo::JSON
representations for booleans are accepted and JSON::XS accepts
Cpanel::JSON::XS booleans [#13, #37] Fixed overloading of booleans.
Cpanel::JSON::XS::true stringifies again to "1", not "true", analog to
all other JSON modules.
- native boolean mapping of yes and no to true and false, as in
YAML::XS. In perl "!0" is yes, "!1" is no. The JSON value true maps to
1, false maps to 0. [#39]
- support arbitrary stringification with encode, with convert_blessed
and allow_blessed.
- ithread support. Cpanel::JSON::XS is thread-safe, JSON::XS not
- is_bool can be called as method, JSON::XS::is_bool not.
- performance optimizations for threaded Perls
- relaxed mode, allowing many popular extensions
- protect our magic object from corruption by wrong or missing external
methods, like FREEZE/THAW or serialization with other methods.
- additional fixes for:
- #208 - no security-relevant out-of-bounds reading of module memory
when decoding hash keys without ending ':'
- [cpan #88061] AIX atof without USE_LONG_DOUBLE
- #10 unshare_hek crash
- #7, #29 avoid re-blessing where possible. It fails in JSON::XS for
READONLY values, i.e. restricted hashes.
- #41 overloading of booleans, use the object not the reference.
- #62 -Dusequadmath conversion and no SEGV.
- #72 parsing of values followed \0, like 1\0 does fail.
- #72 parsing of illegal unicode or non-unicode characters.
- #96 locale-insensitive numeric conversion.
- #154 numeric conversion fixed since 5.22, using the same strtold as perl5.
- #167 sort tied hashes with canonical.
- #212 fix utf8 object stringification
- public maintenance and bugtracker
- use ppport.h, sanify XS.xs comment styles, harness C coding style
- common::sense is optional. When available it is not used in the
published production module, just during development and testing.
- extended testsuite, passes all
http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html tests. In fact it is the
only know JSON decoder which does so, while also being the fastest.
- support many more options and methods from JSON::PP: stringify_infnan,
allow_unknown, allow_stringify, allow_barekey, encode_stringify,
allow_bignum, allow_singlequote, dupkeys_as_arrayref, sort_by
(partially), escape_slash, convert_blessed, ... optional decode_json(,
allow_nonref) arg. relaxed implements allow_dupkeys.
- support all 5 unicode BOM's: UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE,
UTF-32BE, encoding internally to UTF-8.
FUNCTIONAL INTERFACE
The following convenience methods are provided by this module. They are
exported by default:
$json_text = encode_json $perl_scalar, [json_type]
Converts the given Perl data structure to a UTF-8 encoded, binary
string (that is, the string contains octets only). Croaks on error.
This function call is functionally identical to:
$json_text = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->utf8->encode ($perl_scalar, $json_type)
Except being faster.
For the type argument see Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type.
$perl_scalar = decode_json $json_text [, $allow_nonref [, my $json_type
] ]
The opposite of "encode_json": expects an UTF-8 (binary) string of
an json reference and tries to parse that as an UTF-8 encoded JSON
text, returning the resulting reference. Croaks on error.
This function call is functionally identical to:
$perl_scalar = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->utf8->decode ($json_text, $json_type)
except being faster.
Note that older decode_json versions in Cpanel::JSON::XS older than
3.0116 and JSON::XS did not set allow_nonref but allowed them due to
a bug in the decoder.
If the new 2nd optional $allow_nonref argument is set and not false,
the "allow_nonref" option will be set and the function will act is
described as in the relaxed RFC 7159 allowing all values such as
objects, arrays, strings, numbers, "null", "true", and "false". See
""OLD" VS. "NEW" JSON (RFC 4627 VS. RFC 7159)" below, why you don't
want to do that.
For the 3rd optional type argument see Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type.
$is_boolean = Cpanel::JSON::XS::is_bool $scalar
Returns true if the passed scalar represents either "JSON::PP::true"
or "JSON::PP::false", two constants that act like 1 and 0,
respectively and are used to represent JSON "true" and "false"
values in Perl. (Also recognizes the booleans produced by JSON::XS.)
See MAPPING, below, for more information on how JSON values are
mapped to Perl.
DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS
from_json
from_json has been renamed to decode_json
to_json
to_json has been renamed to encode_json
A FEW NOTES ON UNICODE AND PERL
Since this often leads to confusion, here are a few very clear words on
how Unicode works in Perl, modulo bugs.
1. Perl strings can store characters with ordinal values > 255.
This enables you to store Unicode characters as single characters in
a Perl string - very natural.
2. Perl does *not* associate an encoding with your strings.
... until you force it to, e.g. when matching it against a regex, or
printing the scalar to a file, in which case Perl either interprets
your string as locale-encoded text, octets/binary, or as Unicode,
depending on various settings. In no case is an encoding stored
together with your data, it is *use* that decides encoding, not any
magical meta data.
3. The internal utf-8 flag has no meaning with regards to the encoding
of your string.
4. A "Unicode String" is simply a string where each character can be
validly interpreted as a Unicode code point.
If you have UTF-8 encoded data, it is no longer a Unicode string,
but a Unicode string encoded in UTF-8, giving you a binary string.
5. A string containing "high" (> 255) character values is *not* a UTF-8
string.
6. Unicode noncharacters only warn, as in core.
The 66 Unicode noncharacters U+FDD0..U+FDEF, and U+*FFFE, U+*FFFF
just warn, see <http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum9.html>.
But illegal surrogate pairs fail to parse.
7. Raw non-Unicode characters above U+10FFFF are disallowed.
Raw non-Unicode characters outside the valid unicode range fail to
parse, because "A string is a sequence of zero or more Unicode
characters" RFC 7159 section 1 and "JSON text SHALL be encoded in
Unicode RFC 7159 section 8.1. We use now the UTF8_DISALLOW_SUPER
flag when parsing unicode.
I hope this helps :)
OBJECT-ORIENTED INTERFACE
The object oriented interface lets you configure your own encoding or
decoding style, within the limits of supported formats.
$json = new Cpanel::JSON::XS
Creates a new JSON object that can be used to de/encode JSON
strings. All boolean flags described below are by default
*disabled*.
The mutators for flags all return the JSON object again and thus
calls can be chained:
my $json = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->utf8->space_after->encode ({a => [1,2]})
=> {"a": [1, 2]}
$json = $json->ascii ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_ascii
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will not
generate characters outside the code range 0..127 (which is ASCII).
Any Unicode characters outside that range will be escaped using
either a single "\uXXXX" (BMP characters) or a double
"\uHHHH\uLLLLL" escape sequence, as per RFC4627. The resulting
encoded JSON text can be treated as a native Unicode string, an
ascii-encoded, latin1-encoded or UTF-8 encoded string, or any other
superset of ASCII.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will not escape
Unicode characters unless required by the JSON syntax or other
flags. This results in a faster and more compact format.
See also the section *ENCODING/CODESET FLAG NOTES* later in this
document.
The main use for this flag is to produce JSON texts that can be
transmitted over a 7-bit channel, as the encoded JSON texts will not
contain any 8 bit characters.
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->ascii (1)->encode ([chr 0x10401])
=> ["\ud801\udc01"]
$json = $json->latin1 ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_latin1
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will
encode the resulting JSON text as latin1 (or ISO-8859-1), escaping
any characters outside the code range 0..255. The resulting string
can be treated as a latin1-encoded JSON text or a native Unicode
string. The "decode" method will not be affected in any way by this
flag, as "decode" by default expects Unicode, which is a strict
superset of latin1.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will not escape
Unicode characters unless required by the JSON syntax or other
flags.
See also the section *ENCODING/CODESET FLAG NOTES* later in this
document.
The main use for this flag is efficiently encoding binary data as
JSON text, as most octets will not be escaped, resulting in a
smaller encoded size. The disadvantage is that the resulting JSON
text is encoded in latin1 (and must correctly be treated as such
when storing and transferring), a rare encoding for JSON. It is
therefore most useful when you want to store data structures known
to contain binary data efficiently in files or databases, not when
talking to other JSON encoders/decoders.
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->latin1->encode (["\x{89}\x{abc}"]
=> ["\x{89}\\u0abc"] # (perl syntax, U+abc escaped, U+89 not)
$json = $json->binary ([$enable])
$enabled = $json = $json->get_binary
If the $enable argument is true (or missing), then the "encode"
method will not try to detect an UTF-8 encoding in any JSON string,
it will strictly interpret it as byte sequence. The result might
contain new "\xNN" sequences, which is unparsable JSON. The "decode"
method forbids "\uNNNN" sequences and accepts "\xNN" and octal
"\NNN" sequences.
There is also a special logic for perl 5.6 and utf8. 5.6 encodes any
string to utf-8 automatically when seeing a codepoint >= 0x80 and <
0x100. With the binary flag enabled decode the perl utf8 encoded
string to the original byte encoding and encode this with "\xNN"
escapes. This will result to the same encodings as with newer perls.
But note that binary multi-byte codepoints with 5.6 will result in
"illegal unicode character in binary string" errors, unlike with
newer perls.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will smartly try to
detect Unicode characters unless required by the JSON syntax or
other flags and hex and octal sequences are forbidden.
See also the section *ENCODING/CODESET FLAG NOTES* later in this
document.
The main use for this flag is to avoid the smart unicode detection
and possible double encoding. The disadvantage is that the resulting
JSON text is encoded in new "\xNN" and in latin1 characters and must
correctly be treated as such when storing and transferring, a rare
encoding for JSON. It will produce non-readable JSON strings in the
browser. It is therefore most useful when you want to store data
structures known to contain binary data efficiently in files or
databases, not when talking to other JSON encoders/decoders. The
binary decoding method can also be used when an encoder produced a
non-JSON conformant hex or octal encoding "\xNN" or "\NNN".
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->binary->encode (["\x{89}\x{abc}"])
5.6: Error: malformed or illegal unicode character in binary string
>=5.8: ['\x89\xe0\xaa\xbc']
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->binary->encode (["\x{89}\x{bc}"])
=> ["\x89\xbc"]
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->binary->decode (["\x89\ua001"])
Error: malformed or illegal unicode character in binary string
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->decode (["\x89"])
Error: illegal hex character in non-binary string
$json = $json->utf8 ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_utf8
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will
encode the JSON result into UTF-8, as required by many protocols,
while the "decode" method expects to be handled an UTF-8-encoded
string. Please note that UTF-8-encoded strings do not contain any
characters outside the range 0..255, they are thus useful for
bytewise/binary I/O. In future versions, enabling this option might
enable autodetection of the UTF-16 and UTF-32 encoding families, as
described in RFC4627.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will return the JSON
string as a (non-encoded) Unicode string, while "decode" expects
thus a Unicode string. Any decoding or encoding (e.g. to UTF-8 or
UTF-16) needs to be done yourself, e.g. using the Encode module.
See also the section *ENCODING/CODESET FLAG NOTES* later in this
document.
Example, output UTF-16BE-encoded JSON:
use Encode;
$jsontext = encode "UTF-16BE", Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->encode ($object);
Example, decode UTF-32LE-encoded JSON:
use Encode;
$object = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->decode (decode "UTF-32LE", $jsontext);
$json = $json->pretty ([$enable])
This enables (or disables) all of the "indent", "space_before" and
"space_after" (and in the future possibly more) flags in one call to
generate the most readable (or most compact) form possible.
Example, pretty-print some simple structure:
my $json = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->pretty(1)->encode ({a => [1,2]})
=>
{
"a" : [
1,
2
]
}
$json = $json->indent ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_indent
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will use a
multiline format as output, putting every array member or
object/hash key-value pair into its own line, indenting them
properly.
If $enable is false, no newlines or indenting will be produced, and
the resulting JSON text is guaranteed not to contain any "newlines".
This setting has no effect when decoding JSON texts.
$json = $json->indent_length([$number_of_spaces])
$length = $json->get_indent_length()
Set the indent length (default 3). This option is only useful when
you also enable indent or pretty. The acceptable range is from 0 (no
indentation) to 15
$json = $json->space_before ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_space_before
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will add
an extra optional space before the ":" separating keys from values
in JSON objects.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will not add any extra
space at those places.
This setting has no effect when decoding JSON texts. You will also
most likely combine this setting with "space_after".
Example, space_before enabled, space_after and indent disabled:
{"key" :"value"}
$json = $json->space_after ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_space_after
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will add
an extra optional space after the ":" separating keys from values in
JSON objects and extra whitespace after the "," separating key-value
pairs and array members.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will not add any extra
space at those places.
This setting has no effect when decoding JSON texts.
Example, space_before and indent disabled, space_after enabled:
{"key": "value"}
$json = $json->relaxed ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_relaxed
If $enable is true (or missing), then "decode" will accept some
extensions to normal JSON syntax (see below). "encode" will not be
affected in anyway. *Be aware that this option makes you accept
invalid JSON texts as if they were valid!*. I suggest only to use
this option to parse application-specific files written by humans
(configuration files, resource files etc.)
If $enable is false (the default), then "decode" will only accept
valid JSON texts.
Currently accepted extensions are:
* list items can have an end-comma
JSON *separates* array elements and key-value pairs with commas.
This can be annoying if you write JSON texts manually and want
to be able to quickly append elements, so this extension accepts
comma at the end of such items not just between them:
[
1,
2, <- this comma not normally allowed
]
{
"k1": "v1",
"k2": "v2", <- this comma not normally allowed
}
* shell-style '#'-comments
Whenever JSON allows whitespace, shell-style comments are
additionally allowed. They are terminated by the first
carriage-return or line-feed character, after which more
white-space and comments are allowed.
[
1, # this comment not allowed in JSON
# neither this one...
]
* literal ASCII TAB characters in strings
Literal ASCII TAB characters are now allowed in strings (and
treated as "\t") in relaxed mode. Despite JSON mandates, that
TAB character is substituted for "\t" sequence.
[
"Hello\tWorld",
"Hello<TAB>World", # literal <TAB> would not normally be allowed
]
* allow_singlequote
Single quotes are accepted instead of double quotes. See the
"allow_singlequote" option.
{ "foo":'bar' }
{ 'foo':"bar" }
{ 'foo':'bar' }
* allow_barekey
Accept unquoted object keys instead of with mandatory double
quotes. See the "allow_barekey" option.
{ foo:"bar" }
* allow_dupkeys
Allow decoding of duplicate keys in hashes. By default duplicate
keys are forbidden. See
<http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.php#24>: RFC 7159
section 4: "The names within an object should be unique." See
the "allow_dupkeys" option.
$json = $json->canonical ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_canonical
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will
output JSON objects by sorting their keys. This is adding a
comparatively high overhead.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will output key-value
pairs in the order Perl stores them (which will likely change
between runs of the same script, and can change even within the same
run from 5.18 onwards).
This option is useful if you want the same data structure to be
encoded as the same JSON text (given the same overall settings). If
it is disabled, the same hash might be encoded differently even if
contains the same data, as key-value pairs have no inherent ordering
in Perl.
This setting has no effect when decoding JSON texts.
This is now also done with tied hashes, contrary to JSON::XS. But
note that with most large tied hashes stored as tree it is advised
to sort the iterator already and don't sort the hash output here.
Most such iterators are already sorted, as such e.g. DB_File with
"DB_BTREE".
$json = $json->sort_by (undef, 0, 1 or a block)
This currently only (un)sets the "canonical" option, and ignores
custom sort blocks.
This setting has no effect when decoding JSON texts.
This setting has currently no effect on tied hashes.
$json = $json->escape_slash ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_escape_slash
According to the JSON Grammar, the *forward slash* character
(U+002F) "/" need to be escaped. But by default strings are encoded
without escaping slashes in all perl JSON encoders.
If $enable is true (or missing), then "encode" will escape slashes,
"\/".
This setting has no effect when decoding JSON texts.
$json = $json->unblessed_bool ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_unblessed_bool
$json = $json->unblessed_bool([$enable])
If $enable is true (or missing), then "decode" will return Perl
non-object boolean variables (1 and 0 as numbers or "1" and "" as
strings) for JSON booleans ("true" and "false"). If $enable is
false, then "decode" will return "JSON::PP::Boolean" objects for
JSON booleans.
$json = $json->allow_singlequote ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_singlequote
$json = $json->allow_singlequote([$enable])
If $enable is true (or missing), then "decode" will accept JSON
strings quoted by single quotations that are invalid JSON format.
$json->allow_singlequote->decode({"foo":'bar'});
$json->allow_singlequote->decode({'foo':"bar"});
$json->allow_singlequote->decode({'foo':'bar'});
This is also enabled with "relaxed". As same as the "relaxed"
option, this option may be used to parse application-specific files
written by humans.
$json = $json->allow_barekey ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_barekey
$json = $json->allow_barekey([$enable])
If $enable is true (or missing), then "decode" will accept bare keys
of JSON object that are invalid JSON format.
Same as with the "relaxed" option, this option may be used to parse
application-specific files written by humans.
$json->allow_barekey->decode('{foo:"bar"}');
$json = $json->allow_bignum ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_bignum
$json = $json->allow_bignum([$enable])
If $enable is true (or missing), then "decode" will convert the big
integer Perl cannot handle as integer into a Math::BigInt object and
convert a floating number (any) into a Math::BigFloat.
On the contrary, "encode" converts "Math::BigInt" objects and
"Math::BigFloat" objects into JSON numbers with "allow_blessed"
enable.
$json->allow_nonref->allow_blessed->allow_bignum;
$bigfloat = $json->decode('2.000000000000000000000000001');
print $json->encode($bigfloat);
# => 2.000000000000000000000000001
See "MAPPING" about the normal conversion of JSON number.
$json = $json->allow_bigint ([$enable])
This option is obsolete and replaced by allow_bignum.
$json = $json->allow_nonref ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_nonref
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method can
convert a non-reference into its corresponding string, number or
null JSON value, which is an extension to RFC4627. Likewise,
"decode" will accept those JSON values instead of croaking.
If $enable is false, then the "encode" method will croak if it isn't
passed an arrayref or hashref, as JSON texts must either be an
object or array. Likewise, "decode" will croak if given something
that is not a JSON object or array.
Example, encode a Perl scalar as JSON value with enabled
"allow_nonref", resulting in an invalid JSON text:
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->allow_nonref->encode ("Hello, World!")
=> "Hello, World!"
$json = $json->allow_unknown ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_unknown
If $enable is true (or missing), then "encode" will *not* throw an
exception when it encounters values it cannot represent in JSON (for
example, filehandles) but instead will encode a JSON "null" value.
Note that blessed objects are not included here and are handled
separately by c<allow_nonref>.
If $enable is false (the default), then "encode" will throw an
exception when it encounters anything it cannot encode as JSON.
This option does not affect "decode" in any way, and it is
recommended to leave it off unless you know your communications
partner.
$json = $json->allow_stringify ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_stringify
If $enable is true (or missing), then "encode" will stringify the
non-object perl value or reference. Note that blessed objects are
not included here and are handled separately by "allow_blessed" and
"convert_blessed". String references are stringified to the string
value, other references as in perl.
This option does not affect "decode" in any way.
This option is special to this module, it is not supported by other
encoders. So it is not recommended to use it.
$json = $json->require_types ([$enable])
$enable = $json->get_require_types
$json = $json->require_types([$enable])
If $enable is true (or missing), then "encode" will require either
enabled "type_all_string" or second argument with supplied JSON
types. See Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type. When "type_all_string" is not
enabled or second argument is not provided (or is undef), then
"encode" croaks. It also croaks when the type for provided structure
in "encode" is incomplete.
$json = $json->type_all_string ([$enable])
$enable = $json->get_type_all_string
$json = $json->type_all_string([$enable])
If $enable is true (or missing), then "encode" will always produce
stable deterministic JSON string types in resulted output.
When $enable is false, then result of encoded JSON output may be
different for different Perl versions and may depends on loaded
modules.
This is useful it you need deterministic JSON types, independently
of used Perl version and other modules, but do not want to write
complicated type definitions for Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type.
$json = $json->allow_dupkeys ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_dupkeys
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "decode" method will not
die when it encounters duplicate keys in a hash. "allow_dupkeys" is
also enabled in the "relaxed" mode.
The JSON spec allows duplicate name in objects but recommends to
disable it, however with Perl hashes they are impossible, parsing
JSON in Perl silently ignores duplicate names, using the last value
found.
See <http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.php#24>: RFC 7159
section 4: "The names within an object should be unique."
$json = $json->dupkeys_as_arrayref ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_dupkeys_as_arrayref
If enabled, allow decoding of duplicate keys in hashes and store the
values as arrayref in the hash instead. By default duplicate keys
are forbidden. Enabling this also enables the "allow_dupkeys"
option, but disabling this does not disable the "allow_dupkeys"
option.
Example:
$json->dupkeys_as_arrayref;
print encode_json ($json->decode ('{"a":"b","a":"c"}'));
=> {"a":["b","c"]}
This changes the result structure, thus cannot be enabled by
default. The client must be aware of it. The resulting arrayref is
not yet marked somehow (blessed or such).
$json = $json->allow_blessed ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_blessed
If $enable is true (or missing), then the "encode" method will not
barf when it encounters a blessed reference. Instead, the value of
the convert_blessed option will decide whether "null"
("convert_blessed" disabled or no "TO_JSON" method found) or a
representation of the object ("convert_blessed" enabled and
"TO_JSON" method found) is being encoded. Has no effect on "decode".
If $enable is false (the default), then "encode" will throw an
exception when it encounters a blessed object without
"convert_blessed" and a "TO_JSON" method.
This setting has no effect on "decode".
$json = $json->convert_blessed ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_convert_blessed
If $enable is true (or missing), then "encode", upon encountering a
blessed object, will check for the availability of the "TO_JSON"
method on the object's class. If found, it will be called in scalar
context and the resulting scalar will be encoded instead of the
object. If no "TO_JSON" method is found, a stringification overload
method is tried next. If both are not found, the value of
"allow_blessed" will decide what to do.
The "TO_JSON" method may safely call die if it wants. If "TO_JSON"
returns other blessed objects, those will be handled in the same
way. "TO_JSON" must take care of not causing an endless recursion
cycle (== crash) in this case. The same care must be taken with
calling encode in stringify overloads (even if this works by luck in
older perls) or other callbacks. The name of "TO_JSON" was chosen
because other methods called by the Perl core (== not by the user of
the object) are usually in upper case letters and to avoid
collisions with any "to_json" function or method.
If $enable is false (the default), then "encode" will not consider
this type of conversion.
This setting has no effect on "decode".
$json = $json->allow_tags ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_allow_tags
See "OBJECT SERIALIZATION" for details.
If $enable is true (or missing), then "encode", upon encountering a
blessed object, will check for the availability of the "FREEZE"
method on the object's class. If found, it will be used to serialize
the object into a nonstandard tagged JSON value (that JSON decoders
cannot decode).
It also causes "decode" to parse such tagged JSON values and
deserialize them via a call to the "THAW" method.
If $enable is false (the default), then "encode" will not consider
this type of conversion, and tagged JSON values will cause a parse
error in "decode", as if tags were not part of the grammar.
$json = $json->filter_json_object ([$coderef->($hashref)])
When $coderef is specified, it will be called from "decode" each
time it decodes a JSON object. The only argument is a reference to
the newly-created hash. If the code references returns a single
scalar (which need not be a reference), this value (i.e. a copy of
that scalar to avoid aliasing) is inserted into the deserialized
data structure. If it returns an empty list (NOTE: *not* "undef",
which is a valid scalar), the original deserialized hash will be
inserted. This setting can slow down decoding considerably.
When $coderef is omitted or undefined, any existing callback will be
removed and "decode" will not change the deserialized hash in any
way.
Example, convert all JSON objects into the integer 5:
my $js = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->filter_json_object (sub { 5 });
# returns [5]
$js->decode ('[{}]')
# throw an exception because allow_nonref is not enabled
# so a lone 5 is not allowed.
$js->decode ('{"a":1, "b":2}');
$json = $json->filter_json_single_key_object ($key [=>
$coderef->($value)])
Works remotely similar to "filter_json_object", but is only called
for JSON objects having a single key named $key.
This $coderef is called before the one specified via
"filter_json_object", if any. It gets passed the single value in the
JSON object. If it returns a single value, it will be inserted into
the data structure. If it returns nothing (not even "undef" but the
empty list), the callback from "filter_json_object" will be called
next, as if no single-key callback were specified.
If $coderef is omitted or undefined, the corresponding callback will
be disabled. There can only ever be one callback for a given key.
As this callback gets called less often then the
"filter_json_object" one, decoding speed will not usually suffer as
much. Therefore, single-key objects make excellent targets to
serialize Perl objects into, especially as single-key JSON objects
are as close to the type-tagged value concept as JSON gets (it's
basically an ID/VALUE tuple). Of course, JSON does not support this
in any way, so you need to make sure your data never looks like a
serialized Perl hash.
Typical names for the single object key are "__class_whatever__", or
"$__dollars_are_rarely_used__$" or "}ugly_brace_placement", or even
things like "__class_md5sum(classname)__", to reduce the risk of
clashing with real hashes.
Example, decode JSON objects of the form "{ "__widget__" => <id> }"
into the corresponding $WIDGET{<id>} object:
# return whatever is in $WIDGET{5}:
Cpanel::JSON::XS
->new
->filter_json_single_key_object (__widget__ => sub {
$WIDGET{ $_[0] }
})
->decode ('{"__widget__": 5')
# this can be used with a TO_JSON method in some "widget" class
# for serialization to json:
sub WidgetBase::TO_JSON {
my ($self) = @_;
unless ($self->{id}) {
$self->{id} = ..get..some..id..;
$WIDGET{$self->{id}} = $self;
}
{ __widget__ => $self->{id} }
}
$json = $json->shrink ([$enable])
$enabled = $json->get_shrink
Perl usually over-allocates memory a bit when allocating space for
strings. This flag optionally resizes strings generated by either
"encode" or "decode" to their minimum size possible. This can save
memory when your JSON texts are either very very long or you have
many short strings. It will also try to downgrade any strings to
octet-form if possible: perl stores strings internally either in an
encoding called UTF-X or in octet-form. The latter cannot store
everything but uses less space in general (and some buggy Perl or C
code might even rely on that internal representation being used).
The actual definition of what shrink does might change in future
versions, but it will always try to save space at the expense of
time.
If $enable is true (or missing), the string returned by "encode"
will be shrunk-to-fit, while all strings generated by "decode" will
also be shrunk-to-fit.
If $enable is false, then the normal perl allocation algorithms are
used. If you work with your data, then this is likely to be faster.
In the future, this setting might control other things, such as
converting strings that look like integers or floats into integers
or floats internally (there is no difference on the Perl level),
saving space.
$json = $json->max_depth ([$maximum_nesting_depth])
$max_depth = $json->get_max_depth
Sets the maximum nesting level (default 512) accepted while encoding
or decoding. If a higher nesting level is detected in JSON text or a
Perl data structure, then the encoder and decoder will stop and
croak at that point.
Nesting level is defined by number of hash- or arrayrefs that the
encoder needs to traverse to reach a given point or the number of
"{" or "[" characters without their matching closing parenthesis
crossed to reach a given character in a string.
Setting the maximum depth to one disallows any nesting, so that
ensures that the object is only a single hash/object or array.
If no argument is given, the highest possible setting will be used,
which is rarely useful.
Note that nesting is implemented by recursion in C. The default
value has been chosen to be as large as typical operating systems
allow without crashing.
See "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS", below, for more info on why this is
useful.
$json = $json->max_size ([$maximum_string_size])
$max_size = $json->get_max_size
Set the maximum length a JSON text may have (in bytes) where
decoding is being attempted. The default is 0, meaning no limit.
When "decode" is called on a string that is longer then this many
bytes, it will not attempt to decode the string but throw an
exception. This setting has no effect on "encode" (yet).
If no argument is given, the limit check will be deactivated (same
as when 0 is specified).
See "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS", below, for more info on why this is
useful.
$json->stringify_infnan ([$infnan_mode = 1])
$infnan_mode = $json->get_stringify_infnan
Get or set how Cpanel::JSON::XS encodes "inf", "-inf" or "nan" for
numeric values. Also qnan, snan or negative nan on some platforms.
"null": infnan_mode = 0. Similar to most JSON modules in other
languages. Always null.
stringified: infnan_mode = 1. As in Mojo::JSON. Platform specific
strings. Stringified via sprintf(%g), with double quotes.
inf/nan: infnan_mode = 2. As in JSON::XS, and older releases. Passes
through platform dependent values, invalid JSON. Stringified via
sprintf(%g), but without double quotes.
"inf/-inf/nan": infnan_mode = 3. Platform independent inf/nan/-inf
strings. No QNAN/SNAN/negative NAN support, unified to "nan". Much
easier to detect, but may conflict with valid strings.
$json_text = $json->encode ($perl_scalar, $json_type)
Converts the given Perl data structure (a simple scalar or a
reference to a hash or array) to its JSON representation. Simple
scalars will be converted into JSON string or number sequences,
while references to arrays become JSON arrays and references to
hashes become JSON objects. Undefined Perl values (e.g. "undef")
become JSON "null" values. Neither "true" nor "false" values will be
generated.
For the type argument see Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type.
$perl_scalar = $json->decode ($json_text, my $json_type)
The opposite of "encode": expects a JSON text and tries to parse it,
returning the resulting simple scalar or reference. Croaks on error.
JSON numbers and strings become simple Perl scalars. JSON arrays
become Perl arrayrefs and JSON objects become Perl hashrefs. "true"
becomes 1, "false" becomes 0 and "null" becomes "undef".
For the type argument see Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type.
($perl_scalar, $characters) = $json->decode_prefix ($json_text)
This works like the "decode" method, but instead of raising an
exception when there is trailing garbage after the first JSON
object, it will silently stop parsing there and return the number of
characters consumed so far.
This is useful if your JSON texts are not delimited by an outer
protocol and you need to know where the JSON text ends.
Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->decode_prefix ("[1] the tail")
=> ([1], 3)
$json->to_json ($perl_hash_or_arrayref)
Deprecated method for perl 5.8 and newer. Use encode_json instead.
$json->from_json ($utf8_encoded_json_text)
Deprecated method for perl 5.8 and newer. Use decode_json instead.
INCREMENTAL PARSING
In some cases, there is the need for incremental parsing of JSON texts.
While this module always has to keep both JSON text and resulting Perl
data structure in memory at one time, it does allow you to parse a JSON
stream incrementally. It does so by accumulating text until it has a
full JSON object, which it then can decode. This process is similar to
using "decode_prefix" to see if a full JSON object is available, but is
much more efficient (and can be implemented with a minimum of method
calls).
Cpanel::JSON::XS will only attempt to parse the JSON text once it is
sure it has enough text to get a decisive result, using a very simple
but truly incremental parser. This means that it sometimes won't stop as
early as the full parser, for example, it doesn't detect mismatched
parentheses. The only thing it guarantees is that it starts decoding as
soon as a syntactically valid JSON text has been seen. This means you
need to set resource limits (e.g. "max_size") to ensure the parser will
stop parsing in the presence if syntax errors.
The following methods implement this incremental parser.
[void, scalar or list context] = $json->incr_parse ([$string])
This is the central parsing function. It can both append new text
and extract objects from the stream accumulated so far (both of
these functions are optional).
If $string is given, then this string is appended to the already
existing JSON fragment stored in the $json object.
After that, if the function is called in void context, it will
simply return without doing anything further. This can be used to
add more text in as many chunks as you want.
If the method is called in scalar context, then it will try to
extract exactly *one* JSON object. If that is successful, it will
return this object, otherwise it will return "undef". If there is a
parse error, this method will croak just as "decode" would do (one
can then use "incr_skip" to skip the erroneous part). This is the
most common way of using the method.
And finally, in list context, it will try to extract as many objects
from the stream as it can find and return them, or the empty list
otherwise. For this to work, there must be no separators between the
JSON objects or arrays, instead they must be concatenated
back-to-back. If an error occurs, an exception will be raised as in
the scalar context case. Note that in this case, any
previously-parsed JSON texts will be lost.
Example: Parse some JSON arrays/objects in a given string and return
them.
my @objs = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->incr_parse ("[5][7][1,2]");
$lvalue_string = $json->incr_text (>5.8 only)
This method returns the currently stored JSON fragment as an lvalue,
that is, you can manipulate it. This *only* works when a preceding
call to "incr_parse" in *scalar context* successfully returned an
object, and 2. only with Perl >= 5.8
Under all other circumstances you must not call this function (I
mean it. although in simple tests it might actually work, it *will*
fail under real world conditions). As a special exception, you can
also call this method before having parsed anything.
This function is useful in two cases: a) finding the trailing text
after a JSON object or b) parsing multiple JSON objects separated by
non-JSON text (such as commas).
$json->incr_skip
This will reset the state of the incremental parser and will remove
the parsed text from the input buffer so far. This is useful after
"incr_parse" died, in which case the input buffer and incremental
parser state is left unchanged, to skip the text parsed so far and
to reset the parse state.
The difference to "incr_reset" is that only text until the parse
error occurred is removed.
$json->incr_reset
This completely resets the incremental parser, that is, after this
call, it will be as if the parser had never parsed anything.
This is useful if you want to repeatedly parse JSON objects and want
to ignore any trailing data, which means you have to reset the
parser after each successful decode.
LIMITATIONS
All options that affect decoding are supported, except "allow_nonref".
The reason for this is that it cannot be made to work sensibly: JSON
objects and arrays are self-delimited, i.e. you can concatenate them
back to back and still decode them perfectly. This does not hold true
for JSON numbers, however.
For example, is the string 1 a single JSON number, or is it simply the
start of 12? Or is 12 a single JSON number, or the concatenation of 1
and 2? In neither case you can tell, and this is why Cpanel::JSON::XS
takes the conservative route and disallows this case.
EXAMPLES
Some examples will make all this clearer. First, a simple example that
works similarly to "decode_prefix": We want to decode the JSON object at
the start of a string and identify the portion after the JSON object:
my $text = "[1,2,3] hello";
my $json = new Cpanel::JSON::XS;
my $obj = $json->incr_parse ($text)
or die "expected JSON object or array at beginning of string";
my $tail = $json->incr_text;
# $tail now contains " hello"
Easy, isn't it?
Now for a more complicated example: Imagine a hypothetical protocol
where you read some requests from a TCP stream, and each request is a
JSON array, without any separation between them (in fact, it is often
useful to use newlines as "separators", as these get interpreted as
whitespace at the start of the JSON text, which makes it possible to
test said protocol with "telnet"...).
Here is how you'd do it (it is trivial to write this in an event-based
manner):
my $json = new Cpanel::JSON::XS;
# read some data from the socket
while (sysread $socket, my $buf, 4096) {
# split and decode as many requests as possible
for my $request ($json->incr_parse ($buf)) {
# act on the $request
}
}
Another complicated example: Assume you have a string with JSON objects
or arrays, all separated by (optional) comma characters (e.g. "[1],[2],
[3]"). To parse them, we have to skip the commas between the JSON texts,
and here is where the lvalue-ness of "incr_text" comes in useful:
my $text = "[1],[2], [3]";
my $json = new Cpanel::JSON::XS;
# void context, so no parsing done
$json->incr_parse ($text);
# now extract as many objects as possible. note the
# use of scalar context so incr_text can be called.
while (my $obj = $json->incr_parse) {
# do something with $obj
# now skip the optional comma
$json->incr_text =~ s/^ \s* , //x;
}
Now lets go for a very complex example: Assume that you have a gigantic
JSON array-of-objects, many gigabytes in size, and you want to parse it,
but you cannot load it into memory fully (this has actually happened in
the real world :).
Well, you lost, you have to implement your own JSON parser. But
Cpanel::JSON::XS can still help you: You implement a (very simple) array
parser and let JSON decode the array elements, which are all full JSON
objects on their own (this wouldn't work if the array elements could be
JSON numbers, for example):
my $json = new Cpanel::JSON::XS;
# open the monster
open my $fh, "<bigfile.json"
or die "bigfile: $!";
# first parse the initial "["
for (;;) {
sysread $fh, my $buf, 65536
or die "read error: $!";
$json->incr_parse ($buf); # void context, so no parsing
# Exit the loop once we found and removed(!) the initial "[".
# In essence, we are (ab-)using the $json object as a simple scalar
# we append data to.
last if $json->incr_text =~ s/^ \s* \[ //x;
}
# now we have the skipped the initial "[", so continue
# parsing all the elements.
for (;;) {
# in this loop we read data until we got a single JSON object
for (;;) {
if (my $obj = $json->incr_parse) {
# do something with $obj
last;
}
# add more data
sysread $fh, my $buf, 65536
or die "read error: $!";
$json->incr_parse ($buf); # void context, so no parsing
}
# in this loop we read data until we either found and parsed the
# separating "," between elements, or the final "]"
for (;;) {
# first skip whitespace
$json->incr_text =~ s/^\s*//;
# if we find "]", we are done
if ($json->incr_text =~ s/^\]//) {
print "finished.\n";
exit;
}
# if we find ",", we can continue with the next element
if ($json->incr_text =~ s/^,//) {
last;
}
# if we find anything else, we have a parse error!
if (length $json->incr_text) {
die "parse error near ", $json->incr_text;
}
# else add more data
sysread $fh, my $buf, 65536
or die "read error: $!";
$json->incr_parse ($buf); # void context, so no parsing
}
This is a complex example, but most of the complexity comes from the
fact that we are trying to be correct (bear with me if I am wrong, I
never ran the above example :).
BOM
Detect all unicode Byte Order Marks on decode. Which are UTF-8,
UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE and UTF-32BE.
The BOM encoding is set only for one specific decode call, it does not
change the state of the JSON object.
Warning: With perls older than 5.20 you need load the Encode module
before loading a multibyte BOM, i.e. >= UTF-16. Otherwise an error is
thrown. This is an implementation limitation and might get fixed later.
See <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-8.1> *"JSON text SHALL
be encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32."*
*"Implementations MUST NOT add a byte order mark to the beginning of a
JSON text", "implementations (...) MAY ignore the presence of a byte
order mark rather than treating it as an error".*
See also <http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM>.
Beware that Cpanel::JSON::XS is currently the only JSON module which
does accept and decode a BOM.
The latest JSON spec
<https://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc8259.html#character.encoding>
forbid the usage of UTF-16 or UTF-32, the character encoding is UTF-8.
Thus in subsequent updates BOM's of UTF-16 or UTF-32 will throw an
error.
MAPPING
This section describes how Cpanel::JSON::XS maps Perl values to JSON
values and vice versa. These mappings are designed to "do the right
thing" in most circumstances automatically, preserving round-tripping
characteristics (what you put in comes out as something equivalent).
For the more enlightened: note that in the following descriptions,
lowercase *perl* refers to the Perl interpreter, while uppercase *Perl*
refers to the abstract Perl language itself.
JSON -> PERL
object
A JSON object becomes a reference to a hash in Perl. No ordering of
object keys is preserved (JSON does not preserve object key ordering
itself).
array
A JSON array becomes a reference to an array in Perl.
string
A JSON string becomes a string scalar in Perl - Unicode codepoints
in JSON are represented by the same codepoints in the Perl string,
so no manual decoding is necessary.
number
A JSON number becomes either an integer, numeric (floating point) or
string scalar in perl, depending on its range and any fractional
parts. On the Perl level, there is no difference between those as
Perl handles all the conversion details, but an integer may take
slightly less memory and might represent more values exactly than
floating point numbers.
If the number consists of digits only, Cpanel::JSON::XS will try to
represent it as an integer value. If that fails, it will try to
represent it as a numeric (floating point) value if that is possible
without loss of precision. Otherwise it will preserve the number as
a string value (in which case you lose roundtripping ability, as the
JSON number will be re-encoded to a JSON string).
Numbers containing a fractional or exponential part will always be
represented as numeric (floating point) values, possibly at a loss
of precision (in which case you might lose perfect roundtripping
ability, but the JSON number will still be re-encoded as a JSON
number).
Note that precision is not accuracy - binary floating point values
cannot represent most decimal fractions exactly, and when converting
from and to floating point, "Cpanel::JSON::XS" only guarantees
precision up to but not including the least significant bit.
true, false
When "unblessed_bool" is set to true, then JSON "true" becomes 1 and
JSON "false" becomes 0.
Otherwise these JSON atoms become "JSON::PP::true" and
"JSON::PP::false", respectively. They are "JSON::PP::Boolean"
objects and are overloaded to act almost exactly like the numbers 1
and 0. You can check whether a scalar is a JSON boolean by using the
"Cpanel::JSON::XS::is_bool" function.
The other round, from perl to JSON, "!0" which is represented as
"yes" becomes "true", and "!1" which is represented as "no" becomes
"false".
Via Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type you can now even force negation in
"encode", without overloading of "!":
my $false = Cpanel::JSON::XS::false;
print($json->encode([!$false], [JSON_TYPE_BOOL]));
=> [true]
null
A JSON null atom becomes "undef" in Perl.
shell-style comments ("# *text*")
As a nonstandard extension to the JSON syntax that is enabled by the
"relaxed" setting, shell-style comments are allowed. They can start
anywhere outside strings and go till the end of the line.
tagged values ("(*tag*)*value*").
Another nonstandard extension to the JSON syntax, enabled with the
"allow_tags" setting, are tagged values. In this implementation, the
*tag* must be a perl package/class name encoded as a JSON string,
and the *value* must be a JSON array encoding optional constructor
arguments.
See "OBJECT SERIALIZATION", below, for details.
PERL -> JSON
The mapping from Perl to JSON is slightly more difficult, as Perl is a
truly typeless language, so we can only guess which JSON type is meant
by a Perl value.
hash references
Perl hash references become JSON objects. As there is no inherent
ordering in hash keys (or JSON objects), they will usually be
encoded in a pseudo-random order that can change between runs of the
same program but stays generally the same within a single run of a
program. Cpanel::JSON::XS can optionally sort the hash keys
(determined by the *canonical* flag), so the same datastructure will
serialize to the same JSON text (given same settings and version of
Cpanel::JSON::XS), but this incurs a runtime overhead and is only
rarely useful, e.g. when you want to compare some JSON text against
another for equality.
array references
Perl array references become JSON arrays.
other references
Other unblessed references are generally not allowed and will cause
an exception to be thrown, except for references to the integers 0
and 1, which get turned into "false" and "true" atoms in JSON.
With the option "allow_stringify", you can ignore the exception and
return the stringification of the perl value.
With the option "allow_unknown", you can ignore the exception and
return "null" instead.
encode_json [\"x"] # => cannot encode reference to scalar 'SCALAR(0x..)'
# unless the scalar is 0 or 1
encode_json [\0, \1] # yields [false,true]
allow_stringify->encode_json [\"x"] # yields "x" unlike JSON::PP
allow_unknown->encode_json [\"x"] # yields null as in JSON::PP
Cpanel::JSON::XS::true, Cpanel::JSON::XS::false
These special values become JSON true and JSON false values,
respectively. You can also use "\1" and "\0" or "!0" and "!1"
directly if you want.
encode_json [Cpanel::JSON::XS::false, Cpanel::JSON::XS::true] # yields [false,true]
encode_json [!1, !0], [JSON_TYPE_BOOL, JSON_TYPE_BOOL] # yields [false,true]
eq/ne comparisons with true, false:
false is eq to the empty string or the string 'false' or the special
empty string "!!0" or "!1", i.e. "SV_NO", or the numbers 0 or 0.0.
true is eq to the string 'true' or to the special string "!0" (i.e.
"SV_YES") or to the numbers 1 or 1.0.
blessed objects
Blessed objects are not directly representable in JSON, but
"Cpanel::JSON::XS" allows various optional ways of handling objects.
See "OBJECT SERIALIZATION", below, for details.
See the "allow_blessed" and "convert_blessed" methods on various
options on how to deal with this: basically, you can choose between
throwing an exception, encoding the reference as if it weren't
blessed, use the objects overloaded stringification method or
provide your own serializer method.
simple scalars
Simple Perl scalars (any scalar that is not a reference) are the
most difficult objects to encode: Cpanel::JSON::XS will encode
undefined scalars or inf/nan as JSON "null" values and other scalars
to either number or string in non-deterministic way which may be
affected or changed by Perl version or any other loaded Perl module.
If you want to have stable and deterministic types in JSON encoder
then use Cpanel::JSON::XS::Type.
Alternative way for deterministic types is to use "type_all_string"
method when all perl scalars are encoded to JSON strings.
Non-deterministic behavior is following: scalars that have last been
used in a string context before encoding as JSON strings, and
anything else as number value:
# dump as number
encode_json [2] # yields [2]
encode_json [-3.0e17] # yields [-3e+17]
my $value = 5; encode_json [$value] # yields [5]
# used as string, but the two representations are for the same number
print $value;
encode_json [$value] # yields [5]
# used as different string (non-matching dual-var)
my $str = '0 but true';
my $num = 1 + $str;
encode_json [$num, $str] # yields [1,"0 but true"]
# undef becomes null
encode_json [undef] # yields [null]
# inf or nan becomes null, unless you answered
# "Do you want to handle inf/nan as strings" with yes
encode_json [9**9**9] # yields [null]
You can force the type to be a JSON string by stringifying it:
my $x = 3.1; # some variable containing a number
"$x"; # stringified
$x .= ""; # another, more awkward way to stringify
print $x; # perl does it for you, too, quite often
You can force the type to be a JSON number by numifying it:
my $x = "3"; # some variable containing a string
$x += 0; # numify it, ensuring it will be dumped as a number
$x *= 1; # same thing, the choice is yours.
Note that numerical precision has the same meaning as under Perl (so
binary to decimal conversion follows the same rules as in Perl,
which can differ to other languages). Also, your perl interpreter
might expose extensions to the floating point numbers of your
platform, such as infinities or NaN's - these cannot be represented
in JSON, and thus null is returned instead. Optionally you can
configure it to stringify inf and nan values.
OBJECT SERIALIZATION
As JSON cannot directly represent Perl objects, you have to choose
between a pure JSON representation (without the ability to deserialize
the object automatically again), and a nonstandard extension to the JSON
syntax, tagged values.
SERIALIZATION
What happens when "Cpanel::JSON::XS" encounters a Perl object depends on
the "allow_blessed", "convert_blessed" and "allow_tags" settings, which
are used in this order:
1. "allow_tags" is enabled and the object has a "FREEZE" method.
In this case, "Cpanel::JSON::XS" uses the Types::Serialiser object
serialization protocol to create a tagged JSON value, using a
nonstandard extension to the JSON syntax.
This works by invoking the "FREEZE" method on the object, with the
first argument being the object to serialize, and the second
argument being the constant string "JSON" to distinguish it from
other serializers.
The "FREEZE" method can return any number of values (i.e. zero or
more). These values and the paclkage/classname of the object will
then be encoded as a tagged JSON value in the following format:
("classname")[FREEZE return values...]
e.g.:
("URI")["http://www.google.com/"]
("MyDate")[2013,10,29]
("ImageData::JPEG")["Z3...VlCg=="]
For example, the hypothetical "My::Object" "FREEZE" method might use
the objects "type" and "id" members to encode the object:
sub My::Object::FREEZE {
my ($self, $serializer) = @_;
($self->{type}, $self->{id})
}
2. "convert_blessed" is enabled and the object has a "TO_JSON" method.
In this case, the "TO_JSON" method of the object is invoked in
scalar context. It must return a single scalar that can be directly
encoded into JSON. This scalar replaces the object in the JSON text.
For example, the following "TO_JSON" method will convert all URI
objects to JSON strings when serialized. The fact that these values
originally were URI objects is lost.
sub URI::TO_JSON {
my ($uri) = @_;
$uri->as_string
}
3. "convert_blessed" is enabled and the object has a stringification
overload.
In this case, the overloaded "" method of the object is invoked in
scalar context. It must return a single scalar that can be directly
encoded into JSON. This scalar replaces the object in the JSON text.
For example, the following "" method will convert all URI objects to
JSON strings when serialized. The fact that these values originally
were URI objects is lost.
package URI;
use overload '""' => sub { shift->as_string };
4. "allow_blessed" is enabled.
The object will be serialized as a JSON null value.
5. none of the above
If none of the settings are enabled or the respective methods are
missing, "Cpanel::JSON::XS" throws an exception.
DESERIALIZATION
For deserialization there are only two cases to consider: either
nonstandard tagging was used, in which case "allow_tags" decides, or
objects cannot be automatically be deserialized, in which case you can
use postprocessing or the "filter_json_object" or
"filter_json_single_key_object" callbacks to get some real objects our
of your JSON.
This section only considers the tagged value case: I a tagged JSON
object is encountered during decoding and "allow_tags" is disabled, a
parse error will result (as if tagged values were not part of the
grammar).
If "allow_tags" is enabled, "Cpanel::JSON::XS" will look up the "THAW"
method of the package/classname used during serialization (it will not
attempt to load the package as a Perl module). If there is no such
method, the decoding will fail with an error.
Otherwise, the "THAW" method is invoked with the classname as first
argument, the constant string "JSON" as second argument, and all the
values from the JSON array (the values originally returned by the
"FREEZE" method) as remaining arguments.
The method must then return the object. While technically you can return
any Perl scalar, you might have to enable the "enable_nonref" setting to
make that work in all cases, so better return an actual blessed
reference.
As an example, let's implement a "THAW" function that regenerates the
"My::Object" from the "FREEZE" example earlier:
sub My::Object::THAW {
my ($class, $serializer, $type, $id) = @_;
$class->new (type => $type, id => $id)
}
See the "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS" section below. Allowing external json
objects being deserialized to perl objects is usually a very bad idea.
ENCODING/CODESET FLAG NOTES
The interested reader might have seen a number of flags that signify
encodings or codesets - "utf8", "latin1", "binary" and "ascii". There
seems to be some confusion on what these do, so here is a short
comparison:
"utf8" controls whether the JSON text created by "encode" (and expected
by "decode") is UTF-8 encoded or not, while "latin1" and "ascii" only
control whether "encode" escapes character values outside their
respective codeset range. Neither of these flags conflict with each
other, although some combinations make less sense than others.
Care has been taken to make all flags symmetrical with respect to
"encode" and "decode", that is, texts encoded with any combination of
these flag values will be correctly decoded when the same flags are used
- in general, if you use different flag settings while encoding vs. when
decoding you likely have a bug somewhere.
Below comes a verbose discussion of these flags. Note that a "codeset"
is simply an abstract set of character-codepoint pairs, while an
encoding takes those codepoint numbers and *encodes* them, in our case
into octets. Unicode is (among other things) a codeset, UTF-8 is an
encoding, and ISO-8859-1 (= latin 1) and ASCII are both codesets *and*
encodings at the same time, which can be confusing.
"utf8" flag disabled
When "utf8" is disabled (the default), then "encode"/"decode"
generate and expect Unicode strings, that is, characters with high
ordinal Unicode values (> 255) will be encoded as such characters,
and likewise such characters are decoded as-is, no changes to them
will be done, except "(re-)interpreting" them as Unicode codepoints
or Unicode characters, respectively (to Perl, these are the same
thing in strings unless you do funny/weird/dumb stuff).
This is useful when you want to do the encoding yourself (e.g. when
you want to have UTF-16 encoded JSON texts) or when some other layer
does the encoding for you (for example, when printing to a terminal
using a filehandle that transparently encodes to UTF-8 you certainly
do NOT want to UTF-8 encode your data first and have Perl encode it
another time).
"utf8" flag enabled
If the "utf8"-flag is enabled, "encode"/"decode" will encode all
characters using the corresponding UTF-8 multi-byte sequence, and
will expect your input strings to be encoded as UTF-8, that is, no
"character" of the input string must have any value > 255, as UTF-8
does not allow that.
The "utf8" flag therefore switches between two modes: disabled means
you will get a Unicode string in Perl, enabled means you get an
UTF-8 encoded octet/binary string in Perl.
"latin1", "binary" or "ascii" flags enabled
With "latin1" (or "ascii") enabled, "encode" will escape characters
with ordinal values > 255 (> 127 with "ascii") and encode the
remaining characters as specified by the "utf8" flag. With "binary"
enabled, ordinal values > 255 are illegal.
If "utf8" is disabled, then the result is also correctly encoded in
those character sets (as both are proper subsets of Unicode, meaning
that a Unicode string with all character values < 256 is the same
thing as a ISO-8859-1 string, and a Unicode string with all
character values < 128 is the same thing as an ASCII string in
Perl).
If "utf8" is enabled, you still get a correct UTF-8-encoded string,
regardless of these flags, just some more characters will be escaped
using "\uXXXX" then before.
Note that ISO-8859-1-*encoded* strings are not compatible with UTF-8
encoding, while ASCII-encoded strings are. That is because the
ISO-8859-1 encoding is NOT a subset of UTF-8 (despite the ISO-8859-1
*codeset* being a subset of Unicode), while ASCII is.
Surprisingly, "decode" will ignore these flags and so treat all
input values as governed by the "utf8" flag. If it is disabled, this
allows you to decode ISO-8859-1- and ASCII-encoded strings, as both
strict subsets of Unicode. If it is enabled, you can correctly
decode UTF-8 encoded strings.
So neither "latin1", "binary" nor "ascii" are incompatible with the
"utf8" flag - they only govern when the JSON output engine escapes a
character or not.
The main use for "latin1" or "binary" is to relatively efficiently
store binary data as JSON, at the expense of breaking compatibility
with most JSON decoders.
The main use for "ascii" is to force the output to not contain
characters with values > 127, which means you can interpret the
resulting string as UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII, KOI8-R or most about
any character set and 8-bit-encoding, and still get the same data
structure back. This is useful when your channel for JSON transfer
is not 8-bit clean or the encoding might be mangled in between (e.g.
in mail), and works because ASCII is a proper subset of most 8-bit
and multibyte encodings in use in the world.
JSON and ECMAscript
JSON syntax is based on how literals are represented in javascript (the
not-standardized predecessor of ECMAscript) which is presumably why it
is called "JavaScript Object Notation".
However, JSON is not a subset (and also not a superset of course) of
ECMAscript (the standard) or javascript (whatever browsers actually
implement).
If you want to use javascript's "eval" function to "parse" JSON, you
might run into parse errors for valid JSON texts, or the resulting data
structure might not be queryable:
One of the problems is that U+2028 and U+2029 are valid characters
inside JSON strings, but are not allowed in ECMAscript string literals,
so the following Perl fragment will not output something that can be
guaranteed to be parsable by javascript's "eval":
use Cpanel::JSON::XS;
print encode_json [chr 0x2028];
The right fix for this is to use a proper JSON parser in your javascript
programs, and not rely on "eval" (see for example Douglas Crockford's
json2.js parser).
If this is not an option, you can, as a stop-gap measure, simply encode
to ASCII-only JSON:
use Cpanel::JSON::XS;
print Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->ascii->encode ([chr 0x2028]);
Note that this will enlarge the resulting JSON text quite a bit if you
have many non-ASCII characters. You might be tempted to run some regexes
to only escape U+2028 and U+2029, e.g.:
# DO NOT USE THIS!
my $json = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->utf8->encode ([chr 0x2028]);
$json =~ s/\xe2\x80\xa8/\\u2028/g; # escape U+2028
$json =~ s/\xe2\x80\xa9/\\u2029/g; # escape U+2029
print $json;
Note that *this is a bad idea*: the above only works for U+2028 and
U+2029 and thus only for fully ECMAscript-compliant parsers. Many
existing javascript implementations, however, have issues with other
characters as well - using "eval" naively simply *will* cause problems.
Another problem is that some javascript implementations reserve some
property names for their own purposes (which probably makes them
non-ECMAscript-compliant). For example, Iceweasel reserves the
"__proto__" property name for its own purposes.
If that is a problem, you could parse try to filter the resulting JSON
output for these property strings, e.g.:
$json =~ s/"__proto__"\s*:/"__proto__renamed":/g;
This works because "__proto__" is not valid outside of strings, so every
occurrence of ""__proto__"\s*:" must be a string used as property name.
Unicode non-characters between U+FFFD and U+10FFFF are decoded either to
the recommended U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (see Unicode PR #121:
Recommended Practice for Replacement Characters), or in the binary or
relaxed mode left as is, keeping the illegal non-characters as before.
Raw non-Unicode characters outside the valid unicode range fail now to
parse, because "A string is a sequence of zero or more Unicode
characters" RFC 7159 section 1 and "JSON text SHALL be encoded in
Unicode RFC 7159 section 8.1. We use now the UTF8_DISALLOW_SUPER flag
when parsing unicode.
If you know of other incompatibilities, please let me know.
JSON and YAML
You often hear that JSON is a subset of YAML. *in general, there is no
way to configure JSON::XS to output a data structure as valid YAML* that
works in all cases. If you really must use Cpanel::JSON::XS to generate
YAML, you should use this algorithm (subject to change in future
versions):
my $to_yaml = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->utf8->space_after (1);
my $yaml = $to_yaml->encode ($ref) . "\n";
This will *usually* generate JSON texts that also parse as valid YAML.
SPEED
It seems that JSON::XS is surprisingly fast, as shown in the following
tables. They have been generated with the help of the "eg/bench" program
in the JSON::XS distribution, to make it easy to compare on your own
system.
JSON::XS is with Data::MessagePack and Sereal one of the fastest
serializers, because JSON and JSON::XS do not support backrefs (no graph
structures), only trees. Storable supports backrefs, i.e. graphs.
Data::MessagePack encodes its data binary (as Storable) and supports
only very simple subset of JSON.
First comes a comparison between various modules using a very short
single-line JSON string (also available at
<http://dist.schmorp.de/misc/json/short.json>).
{"method": "handleMessage", "params": ["user1",
"we were just talking"], "id": null, "array":[1,11,234,-5,1e5,1e7,
1, 0]}
It shows the number of encodes/decodes per second (JSON::XS uses the
functional interface, while Cpanel::JSON::XS/2 uses the OO interface
with pretty-printing and hash key sorting enabled, Cpanel::JSON::XS/3
enables shrink. JSON::DWIW/DS uses the deserialize function, while
JSON::DWIW::FJ uses the from_json method). Higher is better:
module | encode | decode |
--------------|------------|------------|
JSON::DWIW/DS | 86302.551 | 102300.098 |
JSON::DWIW/FJ | 86302.551 | 75983.768 |
JSON::PP | 15827.562 | 6638.658 |
JSON::Syck | 63358.066 | 47662.545 |
JSON::XS | 511500.488 | 511500.488 |
JSON::XS/2 | 291271.111 | 388361.481 |
JSON::XS/3 | 361577.931 | 361577.931 |
Storable | 66788.280 | 265462.278 |
--------------+------------+------------+
That is, JSON::XS is almost six times faster than JSON::DWIW on
encoding, about five times faster on decoding, and over thirty to
seventy times faster than JSON's pure perl implementation. It also
compares favourably to Storable for small amounts of data.
Using a longer test string (roughly 18KB, generated from Yahoo! Locals
search API (<http://dist.schmorp.de/misc/json/long.json>).
module | encode | decode |
--------------|------------|------------|
JSON::DWIW/DS | 1647.927 | 2673.916 |
JSON::DWIW/FJ | 1630.249 | 2596.128 |
JSON::PP | 400.640 | 62.311 |
JSON::Syck | 1481.040 | 1524.869 |
JSON::XS | 20661.596 | 9541.183 |
JSON::XS/2 | 10683.403 | 9416.938 |
JSON::XS/3 | 20661.596 | 9400.054 |
Storable | 19765.806 | 10000.725 |
--------------+------------+------------+
Again, JSON::XS leads by far (except for Storable which non-surprisingly
decodes a bit faster).
On large strings containing lots of high Unicode characters, some
modules (such as JSON::PC) seem to decode faster than JSON::XS, but the
result will be broken due to missing (or wrong) Unicode handling. Others
refuse to decode or encode properly, so it was impossible to prepare a
fair comparison table for that case.
For updated graphs see
<https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal/wiki/Sereal-Comparison-Graphs>
INTEROP with JSON and JSON::XS and other JSON modules
As long as you only serialize data that can be directly expressed in
JSON, "Cpanel::JSON::XS" is incapable of generating invalid JSON output
(modulo bugs, but "JSON::XS" has found more bugs in the official JSON
testsuite (1) than the official JSON testsuite has found in "JSON::XS"
(0)). "Cpanel::JSON::XS" is currently the only known JSON decoder which
passes all <http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html> tests, while
being the fastest also.
When you have trouble decoding JSON generated by this module using other
decoders, then it is very likely that you have an encoding mismatch or
the other decoder is broken.
When decoding, "JSON::XS" is strict by default and will likely catch all
errors. There are currently two settings that change this: "relaxed"
makes "JSON::XS" accept (but not generate) some non-standard extensions,
and "allow_tags" or "allow_blessed" will allow you to encode and decode
Perl objects, at the cost of being totally insecure and not outputting
valid JSON anymore.
JSON-XS-3.01 broke interoperability with JSON-2.90 with booleans. See
JSON.
Cpanel::JSON::XS needs to know the JSON and JSON::XS versions to be able
work with those objects, especially when encoding a booleans like
"{"is_true":true}". So you need to load these modules before.
true/false overloading and boolean representations are supported.
JSON::XS and JSON::PP representations are accepted and older JSON::XS
accepts Cpanel::JSON::XS booleans. All JSON modules JSON, JSON, PP,
JSON::XS, Cpanel::JSON::XS produce JSON::PP::Boolean objects, just Mojo
and JSON::YAJL not. Mojo produces Mojo::JSON::_Bool and
JSON::YAJL::Parser just an unblessed IV.
Cpanel::JSON::XS accepts JSON::PP::Boolean and Mojo::JSON::_Bool objects
as booleans.
I cannot think of any reason to still use JSON::XS anymore.
TAGGED VALUE SYNTAX AND STANDARD JSON EN/DECODERS
When you use "allow_tags" to use the extended (and also nonstandard and
invalid) JSON syntax for serialized objects, and you still want to
decode the generated serialize objects, you can run a regex to replace
the tagged syntax by standard JSON arrays (it only works for "normal"
package names without comma, newlines or single colons). First, the
readable Perl version:
# if your FREEZE methods return no values, you need this replace first:
$json =~ s/\( \s* (" (?: [^\\":,]+|\\.|::)* ") \s* \) \s* \[\s*\]/[$1]/gx;
# this works for non-empty constructor arg lists:
$json =~ s/\( \s* (" (?: [^\\":,]+|\\.|::)* ") \s* \) \s* \[/[$1,/gx;
And here is a less readable version that is easy to adapt to other
languages:
$json =~ s/\(\s*("([^\\":,]+|\\.|::)*")\s*\)\s*\[/[$1,/g;
Here is an ECMAScript version (same regex):
json = json.replace (/\(\s*("([^\\":,]+|\\.|::)*")\s*\)\s*\[/g, "[$1,");
Since this syntax converts to standard JSON arrays, it might be hard to
distinguish serialized objects from normal arrays. You can prepend a
"magic number" as first array element to reduce chances of a collision:
$json =~ s/\(\s*("([^\\":,]+|\\.|::)*")\s*\)\s*\[/["XU1peReLzT4ggEllLanBYq4G9VzliwKF",$1,/g;
And after decoding the JSON text, you could walk the data structure
looking for arrays with a first element of
"XU1peReLzT4ggEllLanBYq4G9VzliwKF".
The same approach can be used to create the tagged format with another
encoder. First, you create an array with the magic string as first
member, the classname as second, and constructor arguments last, encode
it as part of your JSON structure, and then:
$json =~ s/\[\s*"XU1peReLzT4ggEllLanBYq4G9VzliwKF"\s*,\s*("([^\\":,]+|\\.|::)*")\s*,/($1)[/g;
Again, this has some limitations - the magic string must not be encoded
with character escapes, and the constructor arguments must be non-empty.
RFC7159
Since this module was written, Google has written a new JSON RFC, RFC
7159 (and RFC7158). Unfortunately, this RFC breaks compatibility with
both the original JSON specification on www.json.org and RFC4627.
As far as I can see, you can get partial compatibility when parsing by
using "->allow_nonref". However, consider the security implications of
doing so.
I haven't decided yet when to break compatibility with RFC4627 by
default (and potentially leave applications insecure) and change the
default to follow RFC7159, but application authors are well advised to
call "->allow_nonref(0)" even if this is the current default, if they
cannot handle non-reference values, in preparation for the day when the
default will change.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
JSON::XS and Cpanel::JSON::XS are not only fast. JSON is generally the
most secure serializing format, because it is the only one besides
Data::MessagePack, which does not deserialize objects per default. For
all languages, not just perl. The binary variant BSON (MongoDB) does
more but is unsafe.
It is trivial for any attacker to create such serialized objects in JSON
and trick perl into expanding them, thereby triggering certain methods.
Watch <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzx6KlqiIZE> for an exploit demo
for "CVE-2015-1592 SixApart MovableType Storable Perl Code Execution"
for a deserializer which expands objects. Deserializing even coderefs
(methods, functions) or external data would be considered the most
dangerous.
Security relevant overview of serializers regarding deserializing
objects by default:
Objects Coderefs External Data
Data::Dumper YES YES YES
Storable YES NO (def) NO
Sereal YES NO NO
YAML YES NO NO
B::C YES YES YES
B::Bytecode YES YES YES
BSON YES YES NO
JSON::SL YES NO YES
JSON NO (def) NO NO
Data::MessagePack NO NO NO
XML NO NO YES
Pickle YES YES YES
PHP Deserialize YES NO NO
When you are using JSON in a protocol, talking to untrusted potentially
hostile creatures requires relatively few measures.
First of all, your JSON decoder should be secure, that is, should not
have any buffer overflows. Obviously, this module should ensure that.
Second, you need to avoid resource-starving attacks. That means you
should limit the size of JSON texts you accept, or make sure then when
your resources run out, that's just fine (e.g. by using a separate
process that can crash safely). The size of a JSON text in octets or
characters is usually a good indication of the size of the resources
required to decode it into a Perl structure. While JSON::XS can check
the size of the JSON text, it might be too late when you already have it
in memory, so you might want to check the size before you accept the
string.
Third, Cpanel::JSON::XS recurses using the C stack when decoding objects
and arrays. The C stack is a limited resource: for instance, on my amd64
machine with 8MB of stack size I can decode around 180k nested arrays
but only 14k nested JSON objects (due to perl itself recursing deeply on
croak to free the temporary). If that is exceeded, the program crashes.
To be conservative, the default nesting limit is set to 512. If your
process has a smaller stack, you should adjust this setting accordingly
with the "max_depth" method.
Also keep in mind that Cpanel::JSON::XS might leak contents of your Perl
data structures in its error messages, so when you serialize sensitive
information you might want to make sure that exceptions thrown by
JSON::XS will not end up in front of untrusted eyes.
If you are using Cpanel::JSON::XS to return packets to consumption by
JavaScript scripts in a browser you should have a look at
<http://blog.archive.jpsykes.com/47/practical-csrf-and-json-security/>
to see whether you are vulnerable to some common attack vectors (which
really are browser design bugs, but it is still you who will have to
deal with it, as major browser developers care only for features, not
about getting security right). You might also want to also look at
Mojo::JSON special escape rules to prevent from XSS attacks.
"OLD" VS. "NEW" JSON (RFC 4627 VS. RFC 7159)
TL;DR: Due to security concerns, Cpanel::JSON::XS will not allow scalar
data in JSON texts by default - you need to create your own
Cpanel::JSON::XS object and enable "allow_nonref":
my $json = JSON::XS->new->allow_nonref;
$text = $json->encode ($data);
$data = $json->decode ($text);
The long version: JSON being an important and supposedly stable format,
the IETF standardized it as RFC 4627 in 2006. Unfortunately the inventor
of JSON Douglas Crockford unilaterally changed the definition of JSON in
javascript. Rather than create a fork, the IETF decided to standardize
the new syntax (apparently, so I as told, without finding it very
amusing).
The biggest difference between the original JSON and the new JSON is
that the new JSON supports scalars (anything other than arrays and
objects) at the top-level of a JSON text. While this is strictly
backwards compatible to older versions, it breaks a number of protocols
that relied on sending JSON back-to-back, and is a minor security
concern.
For example, imagine you have two banks communicating, and on one side,
the JSON coder gets upgraded. Two messages, such as 10 and 1000 might
then be confused to mean 101000, something that couldn't happen in the
original JSON, because neither of these messages would be valid JSON.
If one side accepts these messages, then an upgrade in the coder on
either side could result in this becoming exploitable.
This module has always allowed these messages as an optional extension,
by default disabled. The security concerns are the reason why the
default is still disabled, but future versions might/will likely upgrade
to the newer RFC as default format, so you are advised to check your
implementation and/or override the default with "->allow_nonref (0)" to
ensure that future versions are safe.
THREADS
Cpanel::JSON::XS has proper ithreads support, unlike JSON::XS. If you
encounter any bugs with thread support please report them.
From Version 4.00 - 4.19 you couldn't encode true with threads::shared
magic.
BUGS
While the goal of the Cpanel::JSON::XS module is to be correct, that
unfortunately does not mean it's bug-free, only that the author thinks
its design is bug-free. If you keep reporting bugs and tests they will
be fixed swiftly, though.
Since the JSON::XS author refuses to use a public bugtracker and prefers
private emails, we use the tracker at github, so you might want to
report any issues twice. Once in private to MLEHMANN to be fixed in
JSON::XS and one to our the public tracker. Issues fixed by JSON::XS
with a new release will also be backported to Cpanel::JSON::XS and
5.6.2, as long as cPanel relies on 5.6.2 and Cpanel::JSON::XS as our
serializer of choice.
<https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/issues>
LICENSE
This module is available under the same licences as perl, the Artistic
license and the GPL.
SEE ALSO
The cpanel_json_xs command line utility for quick experiments.
JSON::PP, JSON, JSON::XS, JSON::MaybeXS, Mojo::JSON,
Mojo::JSON::MaybeXS, JSON::SL, JSON::DWIW, JSON::YAJL, JSON::Any,
Test::JSON, Locale::Wolowitz, <https://metacpan.org/search?q=JSON>
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159>
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627>
AUTHOR
Reini Urban <[email protected]>
Marc Lehmann <[email protected]>, http://home.schmorp.de/
MAINTAINER
Reini Urban <[email protected]>
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Booleans do not round-trip with JSON::PP or Mojo::JSON
A boolean from this modules produces encountered object '1', but neither allow_blessed nor convert_blessed settings are enabled with JSON::PP and a 0/1 with Mojo::JSON. Both modules [1, 2] currently use and expect a JSON::PP::Boolean blessed scalar reference, while this module produces a JSON::XS::Boolean. New versions of JSON::XS also appear to produce a JSON::PP::Boolean.
Example:
use v5.16;
use Cpanel::JSON::XS qw( decode_json );
use JSON::PP qw( encode_json );
say encode_json(decode_json('[true]'));Inconsistency in scalar ref encoding in 3.0206
Still something off with convert_blessed/allow_blessed and unblessed scalar refs. (which should not be affected by these options; all of these cases should throw an exception because allow_unknown is not enabled)
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->encode({false => \""})'
cannot encode reference to scalar 'SCALAR(0x16e6c70)' unless the scalar is 0 or 1 at -e line 1.
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->allow_blessed->encode({false => \""})'
cannot encode reference to scalar 'SCALAR(0x1fd2928)' unless the scalar is 0 or 1 at -e line 1.
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->convert_blessed->encode({false => \""})'
{"false":null}
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->allow_blessed->convert_blessed->encode({false => \""})'
{"false":null}
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->encode({true => \"some true value"})'
cannot encode reference to scalar 'SCALAR(0x152ac80)' unless the scalar is 0 or 1 at -e line 1.
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->allow_blessed->encode({true => \"some true value"})'
cannot encode reference to scalar 'SCALAR(0x2132918)' unless the scalar is 0 or 1 at -e line 1.
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->convert_blessed->encode({true => \"some true value"})'
{"true":null}
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->allow_blessed->convert_blessed->encode({true => \"some true value"})'
{"true":"some true value"}
This last case is also inconsistent because unlike all the other cases, the scalar ref does not encode to null with allow_unknown and both other options enabled (it encodes to the same string)
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->allow_unknown->encode({true => \"some true value"})'
{"true":null}
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->allow_unknown->allow_blessed->convert_blessed->encode({true => \"some true value"})'
{"true":"some true value"}
JSON.pm refuses to load Cpanel::JSON::XS
Not sure where to report this
using $JSON::VERSION = '2.90';
C:\sources\rperl>set PERL_JSON_BACKEND=Cpanel::JSON::XS
C:\sources\rperl>perl -MJSON -E"0"
The value of environmental variable 'PERL_JSON_BACKEND' is invalid. at -e line 0
.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
C:\sources\rperl>
unusable
Error decoding large string
A test from the Mojo::JSON suite is failing in 3.0206 (works in 3.0205):
# Huge string
$bytes = encode_json(['a' x 32768]);
is_deeply decode_json($bytes), ['a' x 32768], 'successful roundtrip';
Output:
, or ] expected while parsing array, at character offset 16387 (before "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...") at - line 3.
Loading JSON::XS before Cpanel breaks round-tripping
use JSON::XS;
use Cpanel::JSON::XS;
my $json = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->utf8;
my $json_str = '{"foo": true}';
my $hash = $json->decode($json_str);
$json->pretty;
print $json->encode($hash);
throws:
encountered object 'Types::Serialiser=HASH(0x7fc904804738)', but neither allow_blessed nor convert_blessed settings are enabled at test.pl line 10.
stringification of true
Question: What was the main reason to change stratification of true to "true" instead of 1? Its kind of unexpected behavior for JSON::XS users. Also it doesn't pass Moose's 'Bool' constraint. It doesn't mean this is bad/wrong, but I see no explanations/background of this change in 3.0201
Btw, #29 suggested "1" and "0" and it was so for a while, but then changed back again.
/ is accepted on decode and isn't escaped as \/ when encoding
JSON::XS and Cpanel::JSON::XS both accepts {"key":"1 / 5"} when decoding and also outputs this when encoding { key => "1 / 5" }.
See http://json.org for the definition of string which lists / ('solidus') as only valid when escaped.
JSON::Tiny is correct in that regard.
Error message on accidental class method call is a trifle confusing
sherlock$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -e 'Cpanel::JSON::XS->pretty'
object is not of type Cpanel::JSON::XS at -e line 1.
sherlock$
While I'm aware that forgetting the ->new-> part was impressively boneheaded on my part, I'd've realised my stupid mistake quicker had the error said "dude, you called an object method on the class, reconsider your life choices". The method name would've been nice too (and Devel::Confess helps me not here).
is Pod::Usage still necessary?
(migrated from https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=113710)
Pod::Usage fails tests and doesn't seem to be used anymore -- can it just be removed?
inf and nan encoded as invalid JSON
Encoding a value that is represented as "inf" or "nan" results in bareword output which is not valid JSON.
Examples:
encode_json [9**9**9]
=> [inf]
encode_json [-sin 9**9**9]
=> [nan]
(In Mojo::JSON, these get encoded to the strings "inf" and "nan")
Interoperability fail with JSON::XS
Copied from https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=92548
use Cpanel::JSON::XS ();
my $boolstring = '{ "is_true" : true }';
my $xs_string;
{
use JSON::XS ();
my $json = JSON::XS->new;
$xs_string = $json->decode( $boolstring );
}
my $json = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new;
$json->encode( $xs_string );
#^ dies: encountered object '1', but neither allow_blessed nor
# convert_blessed settings are enabled
This becomes a problem when trying to use Cpanel::JSON::XS for a drop in
replacement without replacing JSON::XS everywhere.
Stringification of Booleans
Cpanel::JSON::XS::false stringifies as 'false', which is a strange choice since its value is true. It also seems to diverge from JSON and JSON::XS. Is there any chance of it being "0" (with ::true stringifying to "1")?
Heap overflow from new strEQc macro
The strEQc macro will read past the end of *s if it's shorter than sizeof(c).
$ perl -Mblib -e 'package J { use base "Cpanel::JSON::XS"; }; J->new'
=================================================================
==18628==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x6040000278f3 at pc 0x7fe09b80e5ff bp 0x7ffd17049250 sp 0x7ffd17048a00
READ of size 17 at 0x6040000278f3 thread T0
#0 0x7fe09b80e5fe (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.3+0x8a5fe)
#1 0x7fe0973c2229 in XS_Cpanel__JSON__XS_new /home/ilmari/src/Cpanel-JSON-XS/XS.xs:3181
#2 0x682b4f in Perl_pp_entersub /home/ilmari/src/perl/pp_hot.c:3983
#3 0x5fc7d6 in Perl_runops_debug /home/ilmari/src/perl/dump.c:2246
#4 0x4a01db in S_run_body /home/ilmari/src/perl/perl.c:2521
#5 0x4a01db in perl_run /home/ilmari/src/perl/perl.c:2449
#6 0x423f94 in main /home/ilmari/src/perl/perlmain.c:123
#7 0x7fe09a68e2b0 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x202b0)
#8 0x424789 in _start (/usr/home/ilmari/perl/blead-asan/bin/perl+0x424789)
0x6040000278f3 is located 0 bytes to the right of 35-byte region [0x6040000278d0,0x6040000278f3)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7fe09b845d28 in malloc (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.3+0xc1d28)
#1 0x601416 in Perl_safesysmalloc /home/ilmari/src/perl/util.c:153
#2 0x974f9f (/usr/home/ilmari/perl/blead-asan/bin/perl+0x974f9f)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.3+0x8a5fe)
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
0x0c087fffcec0: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd
0x0c087fffced0: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 fa
0x0c087fffcee0: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa
0x0c087fffcef0: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0c087fffcf00: fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 03 fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 fa
=>0x0c087fffcf10: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa 00 00 00 00[03]fa
0x0c087fffcf20: fa fa 00 00 00 00 05 fa fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd
0x0c087fffcf30: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd
0x0c087fffcf40: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd
0x0c087fffcf50: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd
0x0c087fffcf60: fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
Addressable: 00
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Heap left redzone: fa
Heap right redzone: fb
Freed heap region: fd
Stack left redzone: f1
Stack mid redzone: f2
Stack right redzone: f3
Stack partial redzone: f4
Stack after return: f5
Stack use after scope: f8
Global redzone: f9
Global init order: f6
Poisoned by user: f7
Container overflow: fc
Array cookie: ac
Intra object redzone: bb
ASan internal: fe
Left alloca redzone: ca
Right alloca redzone: cb
==18628==ABORTING
Test fails with -Dusequadmath perl
On Perl 5.23.8 compiled with -Dusequadmath, Cpanel::JSON::XS (and JSON::XS) fails the following test:
# Failed test 'digit 1.23E-4'
# at t/11_pc_expo.t line 32.
# got: '[0.00012300000000000001]'
# expected: '[0.000123]'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 8.
t/11_pc_expo.t ..............
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/8 subtests
Choosing "Yes" to "Stringify Inf/Nan" causes tests to fail.
t/16_tied.t ................. ok
# Failed test at t/117_numbers.t line 7.
# got: '["inf"]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test at t/117_numbers.t line 8.
# got: '["nan"]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test at t/117_numbers.t line 9.
# got: '["-inf"]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test at t/117_numbers.t line 10.
# got: '["-nan"]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test at t/117_numbers.t line 11.
# got: '["-nan"]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Looks like you failed 5 tests of 9.
t/117_numbers.t .............
Dubious, test returned 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500)
Failed 5/9 subtests
t/11_pc_expo.t ..........
Move common::sense to suggests?
Given some versions of CPAN.pm default to installing recommends, it seems worth moving common::sense out to suggests to make it less likely people don't get it unexpectedly.
Thoughts?
Decoding minimum integer on 32-bit Perl results in NV, not IV
perl -MDevel::Peek -MCpanel::JSON::XS -wE '$i = -2147483648; Dump $i; $j=q[{"i" : -2147483648}]; $h = decode_json($j); Dump $h'
SV = IV(0x7f97f1003640) at 0x7f97f1003650
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (IOK,pIOK)
IV = -2147483648
SV = IV(0x7f97f1840cf8) at 0x7f97f1840d08
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (ROK)
RV = 0x7f97f0805498
SV = PVHV(0x7f97f080b320) at 0x7f97f0805498
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (SHAREKEYS)
ARRAY = 0x7f97f040a240 (0:7, 1:1)
hash quality = 100.0%
KEYS = 1
FILL = 1
MAX = 7
Elt "i" HASH = 0x39d503d9
SV = IV(0x7f97f0805668) at 0x7f97f0805678
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (IOK,pIOK)
IV = -2147483648perl -V output:
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 1) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=3.13.0-85-generic, archname=i686-linux
uname='linux dev32 3.13.0-85-generic #129-ubuntu smp thu mar 17 20:50:41 utc 2016 i686 i686 i686 gnulinux '
config_args='-Dprefix=/home/xdg/.plenv/versions/22.1 -de -Dusedevel -Dman1dir=none -Dman3dir=none -Dusemorebits -Doptimize=-g -Uusemorebits -A'eval:scriptdir=/home/xdg/.plenv/versions/22.1/bin''
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-g',
cppflags='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.8.4', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234, doublekind=3
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12, longdblkind=3
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.8/include-fixed /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/i386-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib
libs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
libc=libc-2.19.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version='2.19'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -g -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
PERL_USE_DEVEL USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE
USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO
USE_PERL_ATOF
Locally applied patches:
Devel::PatchPerl 1.40
Built under linux
Compiled at Apr 8 2016 14:16:13
%ENV:
PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL="--defaultdeps"
PERL_MONGO_WITH_ASSERTS="1"
@INC:
/home/xdg/.plenv/versions/22.1/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/i686-linux
/home/xdg/.plenv/versions/22.1/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1
/home/xdg/.plenv/versions/22.1/lib/perl5/5.22.1/i686-linux
/home/xdg/.plenv/versions/22.1/lib/perl5/5.22.1
.
I suspect this cast is doing the wrong thing: https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/blob/master/XS.xs#L2302
Maybe it should be uv < (UV)IV_MAX + 1?
stream to file, i.e. encode to IO handle
add an API as in YAML::Syck (or IO::Compress) for encoding to a stream (filehandle).
Do not construct it fully in memory, only up to a buffer and then write
the buffer to a provided filehandle.
maybe even support decode from stream
Fix missing encountered GLOB error message
JSON::XS has this wrong check:
else if (svt < SVt_PVAV)
=> cannot encode reference to scalar
else
=> encountered GLOB
But SVt_PVGV is since 5.10 > SVt_PVAV which caused
JSON::XS to print the wrong error message, which caused
JSON::PP in core to use the wrong error message to be in sync with
JSON::XS.
add missing options from JSON::PP: sort_by escape_slash allow_barekey allow_singlequote allow_bignum
and add the missing testcases from JSON::PP
nan/-nan encoding test fails
Lot's of FAIL reports show that there is an issue regarding to recently introduced nan/-nan tests in t/10_pc_keysort.t
inf/nan detection on HP-UX
I have experienced the following failure when trying to build Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0210 on HP-UX
- HP-UX B.11.23 U 9000/800
- compiler: gcc version 4.6.1 (Target: hppa64-hp-hpux11.11)
- perl-5.22.0 (osname=hpux, osvers=11.11, archname=PA-RISC2.0-thread-multi-LP64)
The failure looks like this
Entering Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0210
Checking configure dependencies from META.json
Checking if you have ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.58 ... Yes (7.04_01)
Running Makefile.PL
Configuring Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0210 ... Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Cpanel::JSON::XS
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
OK
Checking dependencies from MYMETA.json ...
Checking if you have Pod::Usage 1.33 ... Yes (1.67)
Checking if you have Pod::Text 2.08 ... Yes (3.18)
Checking if you have ExtUtils::MakeMaker 0 ... Yes (7.04_01)
Building and testing Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0210 ... cp XS.pm blib/lib/Cpanel/JSON/XS.pm
cp XS/Boolean.pm blib/lib/Cpanel/JSON/XS/Boolean.pm
Running Mkbootstrap for Cpanel::JSON::XS ()
chmod 644 "XS.bs"
"/opt/perl64/bin/perl" "/opt/perl64/lib/5.22.0/ExtUtils/xsubpp" -typemap "/opt/perl64/lib/5.22.0/ExtUtils/typemap" -typemap "typemap" XS.xs > XS.xsc && mv XS.xsc XS.c
gcc64 -c -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D_REENTRANT -mpa-risc-2-0 -fPIC -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV -D_HPUX_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/pa20_64/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O -DVERSION=\"3.0210\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.0210\" -fPIC "-I/opt/perl64/lib/5.22.0/PA-RISC2.0-thread-multi-LP64/CORE" XS.c
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.sl
/usr/bin/ld -b -L/usr/local/pa20_64/lib -L/usr/local/lib/pa20_64 -L/usr/lib/pa20_64 -L/usr/local/lib -L/pro/local/lib -L/lib/pa20_64 XS.o -o blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.sl \
\
Warning: Some debug info sections were missing.
PXDB aborted.
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.sl
"/opt/perl64/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- XS.bs blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.bs 644
cp bin/cpanel_json_xs blib/script/cpanel_json_xs
"/opt/perl64/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/cpanel_json_xs
Manifying 1 pod document
Manifying 2 pod documents
Running Mkbootstrap for Cpanel::JSON::XS ()
chmod 644 "XS.bs"
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/opt/perl64/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00_load.t ................. ok
t/01_utf8.t ................. ok
t/02_error.t ................ ok
t/03_types.t ................ ok
t/04_dwiw_encode.t .......... ok
t/05_dwiw_decode.t .......... ok
t/06_pc_pretty.t ............ ok
t/07_pc_esc.t ............... ok
t/08_pc_base.t .............. ok
t/08_pc_base_nv.t ........... ok
t/09_pc_extra_number.t ...... ok
t/104_sortby.t .............. ok
t/105_esc_slash.t ........... ok
t/106_allow_barekey.t ....... ok
t/107_allow_singlequote.t ... ok
t/108_decode.t .............. ok
t/109_encode.t .............. ok
t/10_pc_keysort.t ........... ok
t/110_bignum.t .............. ok
t/112_upgrade.t ............. ok
t/113_overloaded_eq.t ....... ok
t/114_decode_prefix.t ....... ok
t/115_tie_ixhash.t .......... ok
t/116_incr_parse_fixed.t .... ok
t/117_numbers.t ............. 1/19
# Failed test 'inf -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 7.
# got: '[++]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test 'nan -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 8.
# got: '[-?]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test '-inf -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 9.
# got: '[---]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test '-nan -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 10.
# got: '[?]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test '-nan -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 11.
# got: '[?]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test 'inf -> "inf"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 25.
# got: '[++]'
# expected: '["inf"]'
# Failed test '-inf -> "-inf"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 26.
# got: '[---]'
# expected: '["-inf"]'
# Failed test 'nan -> "nan"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 29.
# '[-?]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[\"(-nan|nan)\"\])'
# Failed test '-nan -> "-nan"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 30.
# '[?]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[\"(-nan|nan)\"\])'
# Failed test '-nan -> "-nan"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 31.
# '[?]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[\"(-nan|nan)\"\])'
# Failed test 'inf'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 34.
# got: '[++]'
# expected: '[inf]'
# Failed test '-inf'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 35.
# got: '[---]'
# expected: '[-inf]'
# Failed test 'nan'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 36.
# '[-?]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[(-nan|nan)\])'
# Failed test '-nan'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 37.
# '[?]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[(-nan|nan)\])'
# Failed test '-nan'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 38.
# '[?]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[(-nan|nan)\])'
# Looks like you failed 15 tests of 19.
t/117_numbers.t ............. Dubious, test returned 15 (wstat 3840, 0xf00)
Failed 15/19 subtests
t/11_pc_expo.t .............. ok
t/12_blessed.t .............. ok
t/13_limit.t ................ ok
t/14_latin1.t ............... ok
t/15_prefix.t ............... ok
t/16_tied.t ................. ok
t/17_relaxed.t .............. ok
t/18_json_checker.t ......... ok
t/19_incr.t ................. ok
t/20_faihu.t ................ ok
t/20_unknown.t .............. Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(0+ redefined at /opt/perl64/lib/5.22.0/overload.pm line 50.
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(-- redefined at /opt/perl64/lib/5.22.0/overload.pm line 50.
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(++ redefined at /opt/perl64/lib/5.22.0/overload.pm line 50.
t/20_unknown.t .............. ok
t/21_evans.t ................ ok
t/22_comment_at_eof.t ....... ok
t/23_array_ctx.t ............ ok
t/24_freeze_recursion.t ..... ok
t/25_boolean.t .............. ok
t/52_object.t ............... ok
t/53_readonly.t ............. ok
t/54_stringify.t ............ ok
t/55_modifiable.t ........... ok
t/96_interop.t .............. skipped: JSON::XS and JSON required for testing interop
t/96_mojo.t ................. skipped: Mojo::JSON required for testing interop
t/97_unshare_hek.t .......... ok
t/98_56only.t ............... ok
t/99_binary.t ............... ok
t/z_kwalitee.t .............. skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_leaktrace.t ............. skipped: require Test::LeakTrace
t/z_meta.t .................. skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_perl_minimum_version.t .. skipped: Author tests not required for installation
t/z_pod-coverage.t .......... skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_pod-spell-mistakes.t .... skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_pod-spelling.t .......... skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_pod.t ................... ok
t/zero-mojibake.t ........... ok
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/117_numbers.t (Wstat: 3840 Tests: 19 Failed: 15)
Failed tests: 1-15
Non-zero exit status: 15
Files=59, Tests=1519, 15 wallclock secs ( 1.33 usr 0.53 sys + 9.93 cusr 2.50 csys = 14.29 CPU)
Result: FAIL
FYI: similar failure occurs also with HP C compiler
Regression with allow_unknown, invalid JSON
This case should produce ["foo"], and it does for normal stringify overloads but not this one (from Mojo::Bytestream).
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'package Foo {
use overload q{""} => sub { ${$_[0]} }, fallback => 1;
sub new { bless \(my $dummy = "foo"), shift } }
say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->convert_blessed->encode([Foo->new])'
[foo]
These cases should encode the scalar ref to null with allow_unknown enabled, or throw an exception otherwise.
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new
->allow_unknown->allow_blessed->convert_blessed->encode({true => \"some true value"})'
{"true":some true value}
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new
->allow_unknown->allow_blessed->convert_blessed->encode({false => \""})'
{"false":}
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E'say Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->
allow_unknown->allow_blessed->convert_blessed->encode({false => \!!""})'
{"false":}
Serialize PL_sv_yes and PL_sv_no as boolean true / false
perl has special values that could be interpreted as booleans: PL_sv_yes and PL_sv_no. They can be created from pure perl using !0 and !1. YAML::XS uses them for boolean round-tripping.
$ perl -MDevel::Peek -MO=Concise -e 'Dump([ !0, !1 ])'
8 <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC ->(end)
1 <0> enter ->2
2 <;> nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v:{ ->3
7 <2> Dump vK/1 ->8
6 <@> anonlist sK*/1 ->7
3 <0> pushmark s ->4
4 <$> const(SPECIAL sv_yes) s/FOLD ->5
5 <$> const(SPECIAL sv_no) s/FOLD ->6
-e syntax OK
Cpanel::JSON::XS (like JSON::XS) doesn't recognize them:
$ $ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -E 'print Cpanel::JSON::XS::encode_json([ !0, !1 ])'
[1,""]
I expect this output:
[true,false]
This issue is painful to convert YAML to JSON while keeping booleans values properly typed. See this StackOverflow question.
stricter decode("true") - should fail as nonref
"true" (or "false") in decode("true") or decode_json("true") is not a reference, and therefore needs to fail.
decode needs allow_nonref to pass. At least my understanding is that true/false are no JSON objects, they are a primitive. Even "null" is not a valid JSON text/object.
$json->allow_nonref ([$enable])
If$enableis true (or missing), then theencodemethod can convert a
non-reference into its corresponding string, number or null JSON value,
which is an extension to RFC4627. Likewise,decodewill accept those JSON
values instead of croaking.If
$enableis false, then theencodemethod will croak if it isn't
passed an arrayref or hashref, as JSON texts must either be an object
or array. Likewise,decodewill croak if given something that is not a
JSON object or array.
Confirmed by the spec http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
2. JSON Grammar
A JSON text is a sequence of tokens. The set of tokens includes six
structural characters, strings, numbers, and three literal names.A JSON text is a serialized object or array.
JSON-text = object / array[...]
2.1. Values
A JSON value MUST be an object, array, number, or string, or one of
the following three literal names:false null true
So the literal names are no objects. They are valid JSON values, but not a valid JSON text.
This is wrong in all perl JSON packages, but correct in ruby. php json_decode extends rfc4627 as our allow_nonref flags by allowing null, true and false.
Interestingly the JSON::XS documentation and error message is spec conformant, just the implementation not. => decode_json("false")
JSON text must be an object or array (but found number, string, true, false or null, use allow_nonref to allow this)
Changing the XS internal true/false SV from RV to the direct blessed object of JSON::PP::Boolean fixes this bug, and also enables eq overload.
previously we used a RV to the blessed PVMG JSON::PP::Boolean object.
The problem is with eq overloading, that eq needs the object directly,
it will not call overload magic on the reference < 5.16
I work on this in the branch nonrefbool-gh41 but a whole lot of hell broke loose with this change.
Maybe just disable eq overload and keep the 3.0115 state.
Tolerate literal ASCII TABs in strings in relaxed mode
See request and patch at https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97558 for JSON::XS
Seems to be weird but legit request.
Option for stringification of objects
Based on the behavior of Mojo::JSON and some discussion on dealing with references there, this is a suggestion for an option to stringify blessed references instead of encoding to null or throwing an exception, when no TO_JSON method is found. Perhaps stringify all objects such as Mojo::JSON does currently (better for debugging), or another possibility is to detect if the object has overload defined. Either way would make Cpanel::JSON::XS compatible with Mojo::JSON for structures which contain e.g. Mojo::ByteStream objects, or DateTime objects.
[cpan #88061] problem (bug?) in json_decode for floating point numbers under AIX
See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=88061
// this relies greatly on the quality of the pow ()
// implementation of the platform, but a good
// implementation is hard to beat.
// (IEEE 754 conformant ones are required to be exact)
if (postdp) *expo -= eaccum;
#if defined(_AIX) && AIX_WORKAROUND
// powf() unfortunately is not accurate enough
*accum += uaccum * fs_powEx(10., *expo );
#else
// from perl.h on this AIX/perl588 box i have that USE_LONG_DOUBLE IS NOT defined
// then Perl_pow maps to pow(...) - NOT TO powl(...)
*accum += uaccum * Perl_pow (10., *expo);
#endif
*expo += eaccum;
decode_json() breaks on a number literal
perl-5.6.2 -MCpanel::JSON::XS -e "print Cpanel::JSON::XS->new()->shrink(1)->allow_nonref(1)->convert_blessed(1)->decode(123)"
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at -e line 1.
new method force_utf8
utf8->decode sets the expected type of the input string, but we are missing a method to enforce the utf8-ness of the result string(s).
Thus any valid latin1 128-255 chars only will not set the utf8 flag.
We might want to add this force_utf8 method to set the result utf8ness.
This is currently only controlled by the use/no utf8 pragma, so we would need this method to be context insensitive.
Request by @brainbuz at YAPC::NA 2015, he will come up with a testcase or data.
JSON::XS corruption of bytes strings
I outlined double encoding problem at https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84244
fix 5.6 utf-8 issues
utf-8 cannot be fully supported with 5.6.
- (optionally) re-implement the missing core API functions
- fix the outstanding cPanel tests
- skip the rest
Support RFC7159: "values" as top level.
RFC7159 puts "values" at the top level of the grammar, and values can be objects, arrays, strings, numbers, "null", "true", and "false".
Examples:
my $jn = encode_json(1); # 1
my $js = encode_json("Hello world"); # "Hello world"
my $string = decode_json('"Hello world"'); # Hello world
my $number = decode_json('1'); # 1
The "allow_nonref" configuration option effectively enables this feature for the object-oriented interface to the Cpanel::JSON::XS module, so the code seems to already exist to support this aspect of RFC-7159.
There could be a few possibilities on how this might be handled:
1: Update the docs to state that Cpanel::JSON::XS supports RFC-7159, and change the default behavior to "allow_nonref" enabled. Also document that for RFC-4627 behavior, it is necessary to set "allow_nonref" to disabled.
2: Leave the existing defaults, but update the docs to suggest that for RFC-7159 compliant parsing / encoding, the allow_nonref feature should be turned on.
3: (This could co-exist with either solution 1 or 2): Add an "rfc7159($enable)", and a mutually exclusive "rfc4627($enable)" tag, and throw an exception if both are used at the same time in conflicting ways, or if allow_nonref is used in a conflicting way at the same time.
...just some ideas. Ultimately it's probably best for the JSON family of modules to simply adopt the new standard. It's unlikely to break any existing usage; the RFC was designed for a reasonably painless transition.
Also worth mentioning: ECMA-404 also supports the notion of a 'value' being the top level, where a value can be those things described above: (object, array, string, etc.).
add PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT patches
CJX/JX's design is unusual. For many functions, a enc/dec var mimmics the behavior of the my_perl * on threaded perls. So I wrote 2 different patches, this one bulk88@78988d3 on branch context_method2 deeply integrates into CJX/JX's design philosophy. A more generic patch that simply puts aTHX/pTHX everywhere, is at bulk88@4d93350 on branch context_method1. I dont think I benchmark which is faster. I would WAG context_method2 is faster since there are less instructions in the final binary, and in some functions all traces of my_perl are removed in context_method2, so no reading my_perl from C stack, push my_perl onto C stack instructions. Instead my_perl moves along with enc/dec with no overhead .
threaded Win32 perl with VC 2003 32 bits, PE section sizes in bytes, .text is machine code
2.3404 master, no PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT
.text 0x492d
.rdata 0x1b60
.data 0x140
context_method1
.text 0x427d
.rdata 0x1b60
.data 0x140
context_method2
.text 0x419d
.rdata 0x1b60
.data 0x140
CJX is still not thread safe since it doesn't use MY_CXT and has code like
static HV *json_stash, *json_boolean_stash; /* Cpanel::JSON::XS:: */
static SV *json_true, *json_false;
Also in the XSUBs there is needless X'es in XPUSHs, since the stack already has room since number of incoming params is >= 1 returned param and decode_json and encode_json the c funcs don't return anything on perl stack.
Also this code is silly. It looks to be trying to be EBCDIC compatible but increases startup time and is unshareable between perl processes.
MODULE = Cpanel::JSON::XS PACKAGE = Cpanel::JSON::XS
BOOT:
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 256; ++i)
decode_hexdigit [i] =
i >= '0' && i <= '9' ? i - '0'
: i >= 'a' && i <= 'f' ? i - 'a' + 10
: i >= 'A' && i <= 'F' ? i - 'A' + 10
: -1;
json_stash = gv_stashpv ("Cpanel::JSON::XS" , 1);
json_boolean_stash = gv_stashpv ("JSON::XS::Boolean", 1);
That should be static const data with an unrolled array initializer. A small perl script could generate the table once and forever.
Reports JSON::PP::Boolean overrides redefined if JSON::PP is loaded later
re: #60
$ perl -we 'use Cpanel::JSON::XS (); use JSON::PP ()'
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(0+ redefined at /home/ishigaki/.plenv/versions/5.20.0/lib/perl5/5.20.0/overload.pm line 50.
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(-- redefined at /home/ishigaki/.plenv/versions/5.20.0/lib/perl5/5.20.0/overload.pm line 50.
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(++ redefined at /home/ishigaki/.plenv/versions/5.20.0/lib/perl5/5.20.0/overload.pm line 50.
Reports JSON::PP::Boolean overrides redefined if JSON::PP is loaded first
$ perl -we 'use JSON::PP (); use Cpanel::JSON::XS ()'
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(0+ redefined at /Users/david/.plenv/versions/22.1t/lib/perl5/5.22.1/overload.pm line
50.
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(-- redefined at /Users/david/.plenv/versions/22.1t/lib/perl5/5.22.1/overload.pm line
50.
Subroutine JSON::PP::Boolean::(++ redefined at /Users/david/.plenv/versions/22.1t/lib/perl5/5.22.1/overload.pm line
50.
failure on mingw64 + longdouble
Hi,
when building Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0210 on
- perl 5.22.1 WITH longdouble / 64bit MS Windows
- gcc-4.9.2 compiler
I got these failures:
t/00_load.t ................. ok
t/01_utf8.t ................. ok
t/02_error.t ................ ok
t/03_types.t ................ ok
t/04_dwiw_encode.t .......... ok
t/05_dwiw_decode.t .......... ok
t/06_pc_pretty.t ............ ok
t/07_pc_esc.t ............... ok
t/08_pc_base.t .............. ok
t/08_pc_base_nv.t ........... ok
t/09_pc_extra_number.t ...... ok
t/104_sortby.t .............. ok
t/105_esc_slash.t ........... ok
t/106_allow_barekey.t ....... ok
t/107_allow_singlequote.t ... ok
t/108_decode.t .............. ok
t/109_encode.t .............. ok
t/10_pc_keysort.t ........... ok
t/110_bignum.t .............. ok
t/112_upgrade.t ............. ok
t/113_overloaded_eq.t ....... ok
t/114_decode_prefix.t ....... ok
t/115_tie_ixhash.t .......... ok
t/116_incr_parse_fixed.t .... ok
# Failed test 'inf -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 7.
# got: '[inf]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test 'nan -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 8.
# got: '[nan]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test '-inf -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 9.
# got: '[-inf]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test '-nan -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 10.
# got: '[nan]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test '-nan -> null'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 11.
# got: '[nan]'
# expected: '[null]'
# Failed test 'inf -> "inf"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 25.
# got: '[inf]'
# expected: '["1.#INF"]'
# Failed test '-inf -> "-inf"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 26.
# got: '[-inf]'
# expected: '["-1.#INF"]'
# Failed test 'nan -> "nan"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 29.
# '[nan]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[\"(-1.#IND|1.#QNAN)\"\])'
# Failed test '-nan -> "-nan"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 30.
# '[nan]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[\"(-1.#IND|1.#QNAN)\"\])'
# Failed test '-nan -> "-nan"'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 31.
# '[nan]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[\"(-1.#IND|1.#QNAN)\"\])'
# Failed test 'inf'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 34.
# got: '[inf]'
# expected: '[1.#INF]'
# Failed test '-inf'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 35.
# got: '[-inf]'
# expected: '[-1.#INF]'
# Failed test 'nan'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 36.
# '[nan]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[(-1.#IND|1.#QNAN)\])'
# Failed test '-nan'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 37.
# '[nan]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[(-1.#IND|1.#QNAN)\])'
# Failed test '-nan'
# at t/117_numbers.t line 38.
# '[nan]'
# doesn't match '(?^:\[(-1.#IND|1.#QNAN)\])'
# Looks like you failed 15 tests of 19.
t/117_numbers.t .............
Dubious, test returned 15 (wstat 3840, 0xf00)
Failed 15/19 subtests
t/11_pc_expo.t .............. ok
t/12_blessed.t .............. ok
t/13_limit.t ................ ok
t/14_latin1.t ............... ok
t/15_prefix.t ............... ok
t/16_tied.t ................. ok
t/17_relaxed.t .............. ok
t/18_json_checker.t ......... ok
t/19_incr.t ................. ok
t/20_faihu.t ................ ok
t/20_unknown.t .............. skipped: JSON required for cross testing
t/21_evans.t ................ ok
t/22_comment_at_eof.t ....... ok
t/23_array_ctx.t ............ ok
t/24_freeze_recursion.t ..... ok
t/25_boolean.t .............. ok
t/52_object.t ............... ok
t/53_readonly.t ............. ok
t/54_stringify.t ............ skipped: JSON required for cross testing
t/55_modifiable.t ........... ok
t/96_interop.t .............. skipped: JSON::XS and JSON required for testing interop
t/96_mojo.t ................. ok
t/97_unshare_hek.t .......... ok
t/98_56only.t ............... ok
t/99_binary.t ............... ok
t/z_kwalitee.t .............. skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_leaktrace.t ............. skipped: require Test::LeakTrace
t/z_meta.t .................. skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_perl_minimum_version.t .. skipped: Author tests not required for installation
t/z_pod-coverage.t .......... skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_pod-spell-mistakes.t .... skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_pod-spelling.t .......... skipped: This test is only run for the module author
t/z_pod.t ................... ok
t/zero-mojibake.t ........... ok
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/117_numbers.t (Wstat: 3840 Tests: 19 Failed: 15)
Failed tests: 1-15
Non-zero exit status: 15
Files=59, Tests=1480, 12 wallclock secs ( 0.58 usr + 0.17 sys = 0.75 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Interesting is that same perl version but WITHOUT longdouble PASSes all Cpanel::JSON::XS tests.
If you have a MS Win machine you can get longdouble build from http://strawberryperl.com/beta.html to replicate this failure.
Big string regression fix issue with quotes-in-quotes in relaxed mode
Just ran the Locale::Wolowitz test suite again with Cpanel::JSON::XS and it gets stuck in some infinite loop, pulling memory.
I thought it could be caused by my previous patch, but bisection pointed at ee74614, the fix for big string handling.
Narrowing down the test case from Wolowitz's, this json string shows the issue:
{ "xo": "how's it hangin 1" }
Before that commit, it does not get into the infinite loop, but it's still broken. It seems to accept the single quote as part of the string quotation instead of a regular character:
, or } expected while parsing object/hash, at character offset 21 (before "s it hangin 1"\n}\n") at ../test.pl line 17.
The bisection of this second issue goes back to the original allow_bare commit, so i missed some cases yesterday.. won't probably be able to look closer into it for a couple of days, sorry!
3.0218 - crashes/segfaults on Windows + long double (MSWin32-x64-multi-thread-ld)
Hi,
when trying to install Cpanel-JSON-XS on 64bit MS Windows perl built with long doubles I see many crashes during make test.
My investigation revealed that the crashing was introduced by this commit: 5624e39 (previous one 8a3da11 is ok)
Here is a perl where you can replicate the problem
http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.24.0.1/strawberry-perl-ld-5.24.0.1-64bit-PDL.zip
--kmx
Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted
Cpanel::JSON::XS has started failing this simple test case:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More;
use Cpanel::JSON::XS;
my $json = '{"foo":null}';
my $data = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new->decode($json);
ok exists $data->{foo}, "foo exists";
is $data->{foo}, undef, "foo is undef";
ok $data->{foo} = "bar", "foo can be set to 'bar'";
done_testing;during the third ok with the Perl error Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted.
3.0104 didn't exhibit this error, so I bisected the failure to 752377a ("bool: return the same true and false objects"):
$ git bisect start master 3.0104
…
$ git bisect run bash -c 'perl Makefile.PL && make && prove --blib -v json-null.t'
…
json-null.t ..
ok 1 - foo exists
ok 2 - foo is undef
Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, subscript "foo" at json-null.t line 11.
# Tests were run but no plan was declared and done_testing() was not seen.
# Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 2.
Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
All 2 subtests passed
Test Summary Report
-------------------
json-null.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 2 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 255
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
Files=1, Tests=2, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.02 sys + 0.02 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.06 CPU)
Result: FAIL
752377a893e0b80566a752826719e4025972ebae is the first bad commit
commit 752377a893e0b80566a752826719e4025972ebae
Author: Reini Urban <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Nov 25 12:39:50 2015 +0100
bool: return the same true and false objects
not a fresh sv was was previosulty a ref to true/false
:100644 100644 1ed68413802ec75f791558c1a518b9b56bee99b3 7e2a061ab9f887d2fcb468461e57616365ae77f9 M XS.xs
bisect run success
The changes in the commit make it clear that true and false values exhibit the same issue as null, which you can modify the test file above to see.
small leak in 3.0103
3650f45#diff-4610e35c51cb14f3ea2754e271f97a6eR186 adds a SV whose refcnt is owned by the MY_CXT struct. This is leaked. An XS END sub has to be added, such as (this is my code) at https://github.com/danaj/Math-Prime-Util/blob/master/XS.xs#L253 . I'd submit a PR but dont have time ATM to write/test it, so I am filing this issue so I dont forget.
RT#101265 freebsd10 -Duselongdouble test fails
JSON::XS uses it's own atof with higher precision.
But this clashes with the lower and rounded precision of the numeric tests. Need to investigate if it's a perl5 problem, a libmath problem (freebsd10 uses now the clang libm, not gcc) or JSON::XS. linux with nvsize=16 works fine
e.g.
# Failed test at t/08_pc_base.t line 67.
# got: '[{"foo":[1,2,3]},-0.120000000000000002,{"a":"b"}]'
# expected: '[{"foo":[1,2,3]},-0.12,{"a":"b"}]'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 20.
or just perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -e'$o=decode_json("[-0.12]"); print $o->[0]'
=> -0.120000000000000002
See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=101265 for the upstream bugreport, http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/aa080e36-e55c-11e3-b6a8-233d9c4a2433 for the cpantesters report. Repro on my freebsd10 machine with -Duselongdouble also.
Upgraded string encoding improperly
Test adapted from Mojo::JSON's tests, failing now on 3.0108
# Upgraded string
$str = "bar";
{ no warnings 'numeric'; $num = 23 + $str }
is encode_json({test => [$num, $str]}), '{"test":[23,"bar"]}',
'upgraded string detected';
# Failed test 'upgraded string detected'
# at t/json.t line 310.
# got: '{"test":[23,"bar" true"]}]}'
# expected: '{"test":[23,"bar"]}'
From the commandline I get stranger output...
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -e'my $num; my $str = "bar"; { no warnings "numeric"; $num = 23 + $str } print encode_json({test => [$num, $str]}), "\n"'
{"test":[23,"bar"5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linu!]}
$ perl -MCpanel::JSON::XS -le'my $num; my $str = "bar"; { no warnings "numeric"; $num = 23 + $str } print encode_json({test => [$num, $str]})'
{"test":[23,"bar"K
5]}
Seems like it is throwing something in the output that shouldn't go there.
is_bool() is no longer safe to run on unblessed references
As of this commit, is_bool() throws an exception on unblessed references. For instance:
Cpanel::JSON::XS::is_bool([])
produces:
Runtime error: Can't call method "isa" on unblessed reference at lib/site_perl/5.20.2/x86_64-linux/Cpanel/JSON/XS.pm line 1982.
documentation contains misleading references to Types::Serialiser
The "OBJECT SERIALISATION" section of documentation refers to Types::Serialiser, but this is only used in JSON::XS, not the Cpanel fork. It's not clear what the Cpanel fork does instead.
(It also refers to itself in this section as JSON::XS, not Cpanel::JSON::XS.)
Check jsonspec results from http://seriot.ch/json/parsing.html
add all these testcases to t/30_jsonspec.t http://seriot.ch/json/parsing.html#23
currently the exact same results as with JSON::XS.
JSON::PP fails 4 more n_ tests, but passes some which fail with XS, only fails 5 y_.
n_ tests need to fail when parsing.
y_ need to parse and return valid results.
i_ tests are undefined, do the sensible result there.
todo: detect and accept BOM,
error with i_string_unicode_U+10FFFE_nonchar, i_string_unicode_U+1FFFE_nonchar, i_string_unicode_U+FDD0_nonchar, i_string_unicode_U+FFFE_nonchar, i_string_not_in_unicode_range
fixme:
y_string_utf16 FFFE[00"00E900"00]00 <=> [""] BOM detection and reencoding
i_structure_UTF-8_BOM_empty_object detect the UTF-8 BOM
n_number_then_00 1\0 <=> 1 stricter number parser
n_string_UTF8_surrogate_U+D800 ["EDA080"] <=> [""] stricter unicode surrogate checks
i_string_unicode_U+10FFFE_nonchar
i_string_unicode_U+FDD0_nonchar
i_string_unicode_U+FFFE_nonchar
i_string_not_in_unicode_range
eventually fix 'y_string_nonCharacterInUTF-8_U+FFFF'++ if $] < 5.013
see branch 30_jsonspec.t, currently failing 10 of 672 tests
Tests failures for perls <= 5.16.3
perl -v
This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for x86_64-linux
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
t/00_load.t ................. ok
t/01_utf8.t ................. 1/13 Argument "2.44_01" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at t/01_utf8.t line 33.
t/01_utf8.t ................. ok
t/02_error.t ................ ok
t/03_types.t ................ Failed 8/79 subtests
t/04_dwiw_encode.t .......... ok
t/05_dwiw_decode.t .......... ok
t/06_pc_pretty.t ............ ok
t/07_pc_esc.t ............... ok
t/08_pc_base.t .............. ok
t/09_pc_extra_number.t ...... ok
t/10_pc_keysort.t ........... ok
t/117_numbers.t ............. ok
t/11_pc_expo.t .............. ok
t/12_blessed.t .............. ok
t/13_limit.t ................ ok
t/14_latin1.t ............... ok
t/15_prefix.t ............... ok
t/16_tied.t ................. ok
t/17_relaxed.t .............. ok
t/18_json_checker.t ......... ok
t/19_incr.t ................. ok
t/20_faihu.t ................ ok
t/21_evans.t ................ ok
t/22_comment_at_eof.t ....... ok
t/23_array_ctx.t ............ ok
t/24_freeze_recursion.t ..... ok
t/25_boolean.t .............. 1/13
# Failed test at t/25_boolean.t line 13.
# got: 'JSON::PP::Boolean=SCALAR(0x1d81798)'
# expected: '1'
# Failed test at t/25_boolean.t line 18.
# got: 'JSON::PP::Boolean=SCALAR(0x1d817f8)'
# expected: '0'
# Failed test 'decode true to !0'
# at t/25_boolean.t line 30.
# got: 'JSON::PP::Boolean=SCALAR(0x1d81798)'
# expected: '1'
# Failed test 'decode false to !1'
# at t/25_boolean.t line 31.
# Looks like you failed 4 tests of 13.
t/25_boolean.t .............. Dubious, test returned 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
Failed 4/13 subtests
t/52_object.t ............... ok
t/53_readonly.t ............. ok
t/96_interop.t .............. skipped: JSON::XS and JSON required for testing interop
t/96_mojo.t ................. skipped: Mojo::JSON required for testing interop
t/97_unshare_hek.t .......... ok
t/98_56only.t ............... ok
t/99_binary.t ............... ok
t/z_kwalitee.t .............. No subtests run
t/z_leaktrace.t ............. skipped: require Test::LeakTrace
t/z_meta.t .................. skipped: Test::CPAN::Meta 0.12 not available for testing
t/z_perl_minimum_version.t .. skipped: Perl::MinimumVersion 1.20 not available for testing
t/z_pod-coverage.t .......... skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04 required for testing POD coverage
t/z_pod.t ................... skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/03_types.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 79 Failed: 8)
Failed tests: 2-4, 6, 8, 10-12
t/25_boolean.t (Wstat: 1024 Tests: 13 Failed: 4)
Failed tests: 2, 5, 10-11
Non-zero exit status: 4
t/z_kwalitee.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
Files=40, Tests=31789, 5 wallclock secs ( 1.83 usr 0.09 sys + 4.64 cusr 0.03 csys = 6.59 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 3/40 test programs. 12/31789 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255Memory error when decoding from a hash key
Sorry I don't have a proper failing test case for this; whether I get a segfault seems to depend on the exact pattern of memory allocations, so very small changes to the test script can apparently make things work. But valgrind consistently reports invalid reads and writes when decoding a JSON string that was stored as a key in a Perl hash. This is crash.pl:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Cpanel::JSON::XS qw<decode_json>;
my %h = ('{"foo":"bar"}' => 1);
while (my ($k) = each %h) {
my $obj = decode_json($k);
}And running that script under valgrind:
$ valgrind perl -Mblib crash.pl
==16408== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==16408== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==16408== Using Valgrind-3.6.0.SVN-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==16408== Command: perl -Mblib crash.pl
==16408==
==16408== Invalid read of size 8
==16408== at 0x493BC3: S_unshare_hek_or_pvn (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x4AA252: Perl_sv_force_normal_flags (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x4C8C32: Perl_leave_scope (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x49DAFC: Perl_pp_unstack (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x49B0F2: Perl_runops_standard (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x438F5A: perl_run (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x42249B: main (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== Address 0x5fd31d0 is 16 bytes before a block of size 32 alloc'd
==16408== at 0x4C244E8: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==16408== by 0x481DB4: Perl_safesysmalloc (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x4B00CD: Perl_sv_grow (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x626B1CF: decode_json (in /home/arc/Cpanel-JSON-XS-2.3401/blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.so)
==16408== by 0x626B491: XS_Cpanel__JSON__XS_decode_json (in /home/arc/Cpanel-JSON-XS-2.3401/blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.so)
==16408== by 0x49CA19: Perl_pp_entersub (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x49B0F2: Perl_runops_standard (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x438F5A: perl_run (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x42249B: main (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408==
==16408== Invalid write of size 8
==16408== at 0x493BD5: S_unshare_hek_or_pvn (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x4AA252: Perl_sv_force_normal_flags (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x4C8C32: Perl_leave_scope (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x49DAFC: Perl_pp_unstack (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x49B0F2: Perl_runops_standard (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x438F5A: perl_run (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x42249B: main (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== Address 0x5fd31d0 is 16 bytes before a block of size 32 alloc'd
==16408== at 0x4C244E8: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==16408== by 0x481DB4: Perl_safesysmalloc (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x4B00CD: Perl_sv_grow (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x626B1CF: decode_json (in /home/arc/Cpanel-JSON-XS-2.3401/blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.so)
==16408== by 0x626B491: XS_Cpanel__JSON__XS_decode_json (in /home/arc/Cpanel-JSON-XS-2.3401/blib/arch/auto/Cpanel/JSON/XS/XS.so)
==16408== by 0x49CA19: Perl_pp_entersub (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x49B0F2: Perl_runops_standard (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x438F5A: perl_run (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408== by 0x42249B: main (in /myperl/bin/perl)
==16408==
==16408== Warning: bad signal number 0 in sigaction()
==16408==
==16408== HEAP SUMMARY:
==16408== in use at exit: 1,013,025 bytes in 12,919 blocks
==16408== total heap usage: 24,820 allocs, 11,901 frees, 1,925,407 bytes allocated
==16408==
==16408== LEAK SUMMARY:
==16408== definitely lost: 176 bytes in 4 blocks
==16408== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==16408== possibly lost: 756,111 bytes in 12,410 blocks
==16408== still reachable: 256,738 bytes in 505 blocks
==16408== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==16408== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==16408==
==16408== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==16408== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 4 from 4)
This is Perl 5.16.0 on x86-64 Linux; I've also reproduced it on other 5.16.x Perls and on Mac OS. (And also with the ancestral JSON::XS too, so I suspect the bug comes from there.)
Getting the script to produce an actual segfault seems to need larger JSON documents, or a larger hash, or both; but the error as reported by valgrind seems to be the same regardless of whether there's a segfault.
2.3404 / Issue #13 broke JSON.pm
C::J::X 2.3404 #13 breaks JSON.pm's make test. Using a modified JSON.pm 2.90 from https://github.com/bulk88/JSON/commits/master
using C::J::X 2.3403
C:\sources\json>nmake test
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.10.3077
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
cp lib/JSON/backportPP/Compat5006.pm blib\lib\JSON\backportPP\Compat5006.pm
cp lib/JSON/backportPP/Boolean.pm blib\lib\JSON\backportPP\Boolean.pm
cp lib/JSON.pm blib\lib\JSON.pm
cp lib/JSON/backportPP/Compat5005.pm blib\lib\JSON\backportPP\Compat5005.pm
cp lib/JSON/backportPP.pm blib\lib\JSON\backportPP.pm
C:\perl519\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e"
"undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.
t
t/00_load.t ................. ok
t/00_pod.t .................. skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD
t/01_utf8.t ................. ok
t/02_error.t ................ ok
t/03_types.t ................ ok
t/06_pc_pretty.t ............ ok
t/07_pc_esc.t ............... ok
t/08_pc_base.t .............. ok
t/09_pc_extra_number.t ...... ok
t/10_pc_keysort.t ........... ok
t/11_pc_expo.t .............. ok
t/12_blessed.t .............. ok
t/13_limit.t ................ ok
t/14_latin1.t ............... ok
t/15_prefix.t ............... ok
t/16_tied.t ................. ok
t/17_relaxed.t .............. ok
t/18_json_checker.t ......... ok
t/19_incr.t ................. ok
t/20_unknown.t .............. ok
t/21_evans_bugrep.t ......... ok
t/22_comment_at_eof.t ....... ok
t/99_binary.t ............... ok
t/e00_func.t ................ ok
t/e01_property.t ............ ok
t/e02_bool.t ................ ok
t/e03_bool2.t ............... ok
t/e04_sortby.t .............. ok
t/e05_esc_slash.t ........... ok
t/e06_allow_barekey.t ....... ok
t/e07_allow_singlequote.t ... ok
t/e08_decode.t .............. ok
t/e09_encode.t .............. ok
t/e10_bignum.t .............. ok
t/e11_conv_blessed_univ.t ... ok
t/e12_upgrade.t ............. ok
t/e13_overloaded_eq.t ....... ok
t/e14_decode_prefix.t ....... ok
t/e15_tie_ixhash.t .......... ok
t/e16_incr_parse_fixed.t .... ok
t/e90_misc.t ................ ok
t/x00_load.t ................ # load JSON::XS v.2.3403
t/x00_load.t ................ ok
t/x02_error.t ............... ok
t/x12_blessed.t ............. ok
t/x16_tied.t ................ ok
t/x17_strange_overload.t .... ok
t/xe01_property.t ........... ok
t/xe02_bool.t ............... ok
t/xe03_bool2.t .............. ok
t/xe04support_by_pp.t ....... ok
t/xe05_indent_length.t ...... ok
t/xe08_decode.t ............. ok
t/xe10_bignum.t ............. ok
t/xe11_conv_blessed_univ.t .. ok
t/xe12_boolean.t ............ ok
t/xe19_xs_and_suportbypp.t .. ok
t/xe20_croak_message.t ...... ok
t/xe21_is_pp.t .............. ok
All tests successful.
Files=58, Tests=3801, 11 wallclock secs ( 0.39 usr + 0.09 sys = 0.48 CPU)
Result: PASS
C:\sources\json>
using C::J::X 2.3404
C:\sources\json>nmake test
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.10.3077
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\perl519\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e"
"undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.
t
t/00_load.t ................. ok
t/00_pod.t .................. skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD
t/01_utf8.t ................. ok
t/02_error.t ................ ok
t/03_types.t ................ ok
t/06_pc_pretty.t ............ ok
t/07_pc_esc.t ............... ok
t/08_pc_base.t .............. ok
t/09_pc_extra_number.t ...... ok
t/10_pc_keysort.t ........... ok
t/11_pc_expo.t .............. ok
t/12_blessed.t .............. ok
t/13_limit.t ................ ok
t/14_latin1.t ............... ok
t/15_prefix.t ............... ok
t/16_tied.t ................. ok
t/17_relaxed.t .............. ok
t/18_json_checker.t ......... ok
t/19_incr.t ................. ok
t/20_unknown.t .............. ok
t/21_evans_bugrep.t ......... ok
t/22_comment_at_eof.t ....... ok
t/99_binary.t ............... ok
t/e00_func.t ................ ok
t/e01_property.t ............ ok
t/e02_bool.t ................ ok
t/e03_bool2.t ............... ok
t/e04_sortby.t .............. ok
t/e05_esc_slash.t ........... ok
t/e06_allow_barekey.t ....... ok
t/e07_allow_singlequote.t ... ok
t/e08_decode.t .............. ok
t/e09_encode.t .............. ok
t/e10_bignum.t .............. ok
t/e11_conv_blessed_univ.t ... ok
t/e12_upgrade.t ............. ok
t/e13_overloaded_eq.t ....... ok
t/e14_decode_prefix.t ....... ok
t/e15_tie_ixhash.t .......... ok
t/e16_incr_parse_fixed.t .... ok
t/e90_misc.t ................ ok
t/x00_load.t ................ # load JSON::XS v.2.3404
t/x00_load.t ................ ok
t/x02_error.t ............... ok
t/x12_blessed.t ............. ok
t/x16_tied.t ................ ok
t/x17_strange_overload.t .... ok
t/xe01_property.t ........... ok
t/xe02_bool.t ............... 1/8
# Failed test 'An object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isa 'JSON::PP::Boolean''
# at t/xe02_bool.t line 32.
# The object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isn't a 'JSON::PP::Boolean'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 8.
t/xe02_bool.t ............... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/8 subtests
t/xe03_bool2.t .............. 1/16
# Failed test 'An object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isa 'JSON::PP::Boolean''
# at t/xe03_bool2.t line 18.
# The object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isn't a 'JSON::PP::Boolean'
# Failed test 'An object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isa 'JSON::PP::Boolean''
# at t/xe03_bool2.t line 19.
# The object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isn't a 'JSON::PP::Boolean'
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 16.
t/xe03_bool2.t .............. Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 2/16 subtests
t/xe04support_by_pp.t ....... ok
t/xe05_indent_length.t ...... ok
t/xe08_decode.t ............. ok
t/xe10_bignum.t ............. ok
t/xe11_conv_blessed_univ.t .. ok
t/xe12_boolean.t ............
# Failed test 'An object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isa 'JSON::PP::Boolean''
t/xe12_boolean.t ............ 1/4 # at t/xe12_boolean.t line 24.
# The object of class 'JSON::XS::Boolean' isn't a 'JSON::PP::Boolean'
encountered object 'true', but neither allow_blessed nor convert_blessed setting
s are enabled at t/xe12_boolean.t line 31.
# Looks like you planned 4 tests but ran 3.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 3 run.
# Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 3.
t/xe12_boolean.t ............ Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Failed 2/4 subtests
t/xe19_xs_and_suportbypp.t .. ok
t/xe20_croak_message.t ...... ok
t/xe21_is_pp.t .............. ok
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/xe02_bool.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 8 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 8
Non-zero exit status: 1
t/xe03_bool2.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 16 Failed: 2)
Failed tests: 4-5
Non-zero exit status: 2
t/xe12_boolean.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 3 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 1
Non-zero exit status: 255
Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 4 tests but ran 3.
Files=58, Tests=3800, 11 wallclock secs ( 0.52 usr + 0.13 sys = 0.64 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 3/58 test programs. 4/3800 subtests failed.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\perl519\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0xff'
Stop.
C:\sources\json>
Issues with keys with spaces when "relaxed" is enabled
Came across this while trying to load a Locale::Wolowitz file, in an environment that has Cpanel::JSON::XS, used indirectly via JSON::MaybeXS.
On Cpanel::JSON::XS version 3.0206, Perl v5.22.
Couldn't find anything on the docs, git bisect pointed at 08df9b4
Example:
host$ perl -M5.014 -Mstrict -MCpanel::JSON::XS -MData::Dumper -we 'my $c = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new; say Dumper $c->relaxed->decode("{ \"a b\": 33}");'
':' expected, at character offset 5 (before "b": 33}") at -e line 1.Seems to work without relaxed, as well as regular JSON::XS
perl -M5.014 -Mstrict -MCpanel::JSON::XS -MData::Dumper -we 'my $c = Cpanel::JSON::XS->new; say Dumper $c->decode("{ \"a b\": 33}");'
$VAR1 = {
'a b' => 33
};
host$ perl -M5.014 -Mstrict -MJSON::XS -MData::Dumper -we 'my $c = JSON::XS->new; say Dumper $c->relaxed->decode("{ \"a b\": 33}");'
$VAR1 = {
'a b' => 33
};
# perl -M5.014 -Mstrict -MJSON::XS -MData::Dumper -we 'my $c = JSON::XS->new; say Dumper $c->relaxed->decode("{ \"a b\": 33}");'
$VAR1 = {
'a b' => 33
};
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