Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V4 09/24] libxl_json: introduce parser functions for builtin types

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 12:03 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:55:30AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> [...]
> > > And presumably if we are to make this change we also need to update
> > > libxl.h to have LIBXL_JSON_GENERATE_NUMBER-ish? What would you suggest
> > > for the name?
> > 
> > Does this actually change the output syntax at all? If it is just a bug
> > fix then we don't need to announce it I think. Any consumers of the JSON
> > will have to cope with the buggy version (if they want to) irrespective
> > of any #define.
> > 
> 
> I will need to check. Presumably it generates a string or something.

Isn't JSON duck typed though? IOW a correct parser should treat {foo: 1}
and {foo: "1"} the same, if the field foo has numerical semantics?

What does libyajl's parser do?

> We can treat it as a bug fix if we only use yajl_gen_number of uint64_t,
> other uint types are not affect.
> 
> Wei.



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