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102package JSON::XS; 102package JSON::XS;
103 103
104no warnings; 104use common::sense;
105use strict;
106 105
107our $VERSION = '2.231'; 106our $VERSION = '2.24';
108our @ISA = qw(Exporter); 107our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
109 108
110our @EXPORT = qw(encode_json decode_json to_json from_json); 109our @EXPORT = qw(encode_json decode_json to_json from_json);
111 110
112sub to_json($) { 111sub to_json($) {
1183when your channel for JSON transfer is not 8-bit clean or the encoding 1182when your channel for JSON transfer is not 8-bit clean or the encoding
1184might be mangled in between (e.g. in mail), and works because ASCII is a 1183might be mangled in between (e.g. in mail), and works because ASCII is a
1185proper subset of most 8-bit and multibyte encodings in use in the world. 1184proper subset of most 8-bit and multibyte encodings in use in the world.
1186 1185
1187=back 1186=back
1187
1188
1189=head2 JSON and ECMAscript
1190
1191JSON syntax is based on how literals are represented in javascript (the
1192not-standardised predecessor of ECMAscript) which is presumably why it is
1193called "JavaScript Object Notation".
1194
1195However, JSON is not a subset (and also not a superset of course) of
1196ECMAscript (the standard) or javascript (whatever browsers actually
1197implement).
1198
1199If you want to use javascript's C<eval> function to "parse" JSON, you
1200might run into parse errors for valid JSON texts, or the resulting data
1201structure might not be queryable:
1202
1203One of the problems is that U+2028 and U+2029 are valid characters inside
1204JSON strings, but are not allowed in ECMAscript string literals, so the
1205following Perl fragment will not output something that can be guaranteed
1206to be parsable by javascript's C<eval>:
1207
1208 use JSON::XS;
1209
1210 print encode_json [chr 0x2028];
1211
1212The right fix for this is to use a proper JSON parser in your javascript
1213programs, and not rely on C<eval> (see for example Douglas Crockford's
1214F<json2.js> parser).
1215
1216If this is not an option, you can, as a stop-gap measure, simply encode to
1217ASCII-only JSON:
1218
1219 use JSON::XS;
1220
1221 print JSON::XS->new->ascii->encode ([chr 0x2028]);
1222
1223Note that this will enlarge the resulting JSON text quite a bit if you
1224have many non-ASCII characters. You might be tempted to run some regexes
1225to only escape U+2028 and U+2029, e.g.:
1226
1227 # DO NOT USE THIS!
1228 my $json = JSON::XS->new->utf8->encode ([chr 0x2028]);
1229 $json =~ s/\xe2\x80\xa8/\\u2028/g; # escape U+2028
1230 $json =~ s/\xe2\x80\xa9/\\u2029/g; # escape U+2029
1231 print $json;
1232
1233Note that I<this is a bad idea>: the above only works for U+2028 and
1234U+2029 and thus only for fully ECMAscript-compliant parsers. Many existing
1235javascript implementations, however, have issues with other characters as
1236well - using C<eval> naively simply I<will> cause problems.
1237
1238Another problem is that some javascript implementations reserve
1239some property names for their own purposes (which probably makes
1240them non-ECMAscript-compliant). For example, Iceweasel reserves the
1241C<__proto__> property name for it's own purposes.
1242
1243If that is a problem, you could parse try to filter the resulting JSON
1244output for these property strings, e.g.:
1245
1246 $json =~ s/"__proto__"\s*:/"__proto__renamed":/g;
1247
1248This works because C<__proto__> is not valid outside of strings, so every
1249occurence of C<"__proto__"\s*:> must be a string used as property name.
1250
1251If you know of other incompatibilities, please let me know.
1188 1252
1189 1253
1190=head2 JSON and YAML 1254=head2 JSON and YAML
1191 1255
1192You often hear that JSON is a subset of YAML. This is, however, a mass 1256You often hear that JSON is a subset of YAML. This is, however, a mass

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