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json-stream-read should validate json too Duy Nguyen (21 Jan 2020 09:15 UTC)
Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Amirouche Boubekki (21 Jan 2020 10:47 UTC)
Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Duy Nguyen (21 Jan 2020 12:44 UTC)
Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Amirouche Boubekki (21 Jan 2020 13:46 UTC)
Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Duy Nguyen (23 Jan 2020 09:11 UTC)
Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Amirouche Boubekki (23 Jan 2020 19:12 UTC)
Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Amirouche Boubekki (23 Jan 2020 19:24 UTC)
Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Amirouche Boubekki (23 Jan 2020 19:16 UTC)

Re: json-stream-read should validate json too Amirouche Boubekki 23 Jan 2020 19:12 UTC

Le jeu. 23 janv. 2020 à 10:11, Duy Nguyen <xxxxxx@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 8:46 PM Amirouche Boubekki
> <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Also, I was thinking about adding a parameters like
> > > > `json-maximum-nesting-level` that would be 501 by default.  And that
> > > > will control the reader, in case there is 501 or more nested JSON
> > > > array or object, json-stream-reader will raise a json-error?  What do
> > > > you think?
> > >
> > > Do we really have any problem with nesting level though? I think the
> > > streaming code itself does not, and the way 'proc' is currently
> > > implement, we don't call it recursively either. This reminds me of a
> > > hacker news thread [1]. Anyway, because it's quite easy to count depth
> > > from user code (and if 'proc' composes well), and (I assume) we don't
> > > have any limits regarding nesting level, I think it's best leave it
> > > out.
> > > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21483256
> >
> > Thanks for the link.

Interesting!

> >
> > I have not proof as of yet, but I think it will be faster to parse
> > JSON text without streaming, but to stay safe, it must have nesting
> > level limit. So, maybe there is a place for a `json-read-fast`
> > procedure?

I will not implement or prescribe a json-read-fast. But It will not be
forbidden!

> Maybe. Maybe not. For small json structures, speed does not really
> matter because it won't take long either way (unless you have to
> process zillions of small json structures). For large json, stream
> parser rules the world. So the use case for an optimized parser seems
> very small.

I do not know if it some kind of code-golfing, still there is an
informal competition for the fastest JSON parser, see
https://github.com/lemire/simdjson

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