Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] win32: use PRId64 instead of %lld

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 01/26/2010 05:43 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> The issue I see isn't related to unsigned.  Apparently we currently
>> accept values such as 'a' as valid strings. Since this is not valid json
>> we probably should reject it just in case we will want to switch to
>> another json library, otherwise clients might come to depend on
>> non-standard behaviour.
>>      
>   This extension is only used internally by QEMU and we find it
> very convenient otherwise we would have to escape strings in
> dicts and lists, which is error prone and time consuming.
>    

Actually, I was reading the JSON RFC last night and came across:

   "A JSON parser transforms a JSON text into another representation. A
    JSON parser MUST accept all texts that conform to the JSON grammar.
    A JSON parser MAY accept non-JSON forms or extensions."

So we are fully JSON compliant in our current implementation.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori