From: caleb clausen <redmine@...>
Date: 2009-09-30T02:53:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25853] [Bug #2160] JSON can't parse input where top-level object is a string

Bug #2160: JSON can't parse input where top-level object is a string
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2160

Author: caleb clausen
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Category: ext
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i686-linux]

JSON.parse blows up when passed an input whose top-level object is a string. For example:

irb(main):009:0> JSON.parse '"foo"'
JSON::ParserError: 574: unexpected token at '"foo"'
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/json/common.rb:122:in `parse'
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/json/common.rb:122:in `parse'
	from (irb):9
	from /usr/local/bin/irb191:12:in `<main>'

Note that '"foo"' is the output of JSON.unparse for the string "foo"; this object ought to round-trip through json properly. This problem does not happen when the string is contained in some other object, like an array: 
 
irb(main):010:0> JSON.parse '["foo"]'
=> ["foo"]

This problem has also been observed in 1.9.2dev (and 1.8.6 with the json gem installed).


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