Bug #10143: JSON module does not conform to RFC 7159

• Status: Third Party's Issue
• Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE)
• Target version: 2.6
• ruby -v: ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-darwin13.0]
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN

[chibimagic (Chibi Magic)]

From RFC 7159: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159

   A JSON text is a serialized value.  Note that certain previous
   specifications of JSON constrained a JSON text to be an object or an
   array.

This means that the following should be valid:
JSON.parse('1') JSON.parse('this is a string')
However, they each currently return a JSON::ParserError:
A JSON text must at least contain two octets!
or
757: unexpected token at 'this is a string'

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Category set to ext
• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to naruse (Yui NARUSE)
• Priority changed from Normal to 3
• Target version set to 2.6

I cannot find another linter that would accept this as input. example: http://www.jslint.com
I can however see that there are more examples of values in the RFC http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-13.
If I am reading this correctly strings, numbers and booleans can be passed.

So all the following should be valid.
JSON.parse('1')
JSON.parse('this is a string')
JSON.parse(42)
JSON.parse(true)

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Third Party's Issue

discussing in upstream https://github.com/flori/json/issues/206