Re: json library

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

"{}" is probably needed as well. I've been looking at ways we could
escape the normal behaviour. Lua has byte strings while json has
unicode strings. One option might be using a Lua-object with an
invalid utf-8 string to signal, that we want that object to be treated
in some specific manner. I am not sure, if this is the best way,
though. :-/

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Gorjan Petrovski <mogi57 () gmail com> wrote:
> I've looked into the json library and found that if it encounters a
> NULL object, then it just returns string with a value "null", so that
> would make the "{}" representation redundant.
> Well JSON-wise, is there such a thing as a string representing a
> nameless empty object when there is a definition for nil?
> Has anyone ever encountered the use of "{}"?
> If the answer to either of these questions is no, then we can make the
> json library default to "[]" when it sees an empty table.
>
> On the other hand if the "{}" is used more than "[]",  a hack has to
> be used, and we should probably note this case in the NSEDoc.
>
> Cheers,
> Gorjan
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi> wrote:
> > I am trying to use the json library to interact with a server that
> > uses json-rpc. The server expects me ot pass an empty argument list,
> > i.e. "[]". My problem is that json.generate({}) results in "{}", and
> > the server gives me an error for sending an object instead of an
> > array. Is this something we should fix in the json library, or should
> > I just come up with some kind of a hack?
> >
> >  --Toni
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