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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:47:12AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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

Yes, I agree we are comnpliant.
But I also think we should be strict and reject non-JSON
input just so that clients do not come to depend on it.

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