Unexpected behavior of std.json.toJSON
Peter Sommerfeld
noreply at rubrica.at
Mon Jan 7 16:05:17 PST 2013
Thanks Adam! D. Ruppe:
> On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 23:16:51 UTC, Peter Sommerfeld wrote:
>> The double slash "//" in the url is replaced by "\/\/".
>> Is that a feature or a bug?
>
> It is intentional. I searched the web for other json implementations
> that do the same thing and came up with this link for why:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1580647/json-why-are-forward-slashes-escaped
>
> "Allowing \/ helps when embedding JSON in a <script> tag, which doesn't
> allow </ inside strings, like Seb points out."
>
> There's no way to disable it in D's std.json, but you don't have to
> either - it is perfectly correct according to the standard.
Thanks Adam! On the other hand: json is fine to be edited by humans and
in this case simple double slashes would be better. Thus a second bool
value to discriminate both variants where preferable. No serious problem
anyway ...
Peter
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