[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/6] json-lexer: Handle missing escapes

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 05/20/2010 11:27 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:50:41 -0500
> Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 05/20/2010 10:16 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>      
>>> On 05/20/2010 03:44 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>>>        
>>>>    I think there's another issue in the handling of strings.
>>>>
>>>>    The spec says that valid unescaped chars are in the following range:
>>>>
>>>>       unescaped = %x20-21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-10FFFF
>>>>          
>> That's a spec bug IMHO.  Tab is %x09.  Surely you can include tabs in
>> strings.  Any parser that didn't accept that would be broken.
>>      
>   Honestly, I had the impression this should be encoded as: %x5C %x74, but
> if you're right, wouldn't this be true for other sequences as well?
>    

I don't think most reasonable clients are going to quote tabs as '\t'.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>>>>    But we do:
>>>>
>>>>       [IN_DQ_STRING] = {
>>>>           [1 ... 0xFF] = IN_DQ_STRING,
>>>>           ['\\'] = IN_DQ_STRING_ESCAPE,
>>>>           ['"'] = IN_DONE_STRING,
>>>>       },
>>>>
>>>>    Shouldn't we cover 0x20 .. 0xFF instead?
>>>>          
>>> If it's the lexer, isn't just it being liberal in what it accepts?
>>>        
>> I believe the parser correctly rejects invalid UTF-8 sequences.
>>      
>   Will check.
>