D JSON (WAT?!)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 15:32:29 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 15:15:37 UTC, Pavel wrote:
>> Ok, let me start with the sample code:
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>> import std.json;
>>
>> void main() {
>>  scope(failure) writeln("FaILED!!");
>>  string jsonStr = `{ "name": "1", "type": "r" }`;
>>  auto parsed = parseJSON(jsonStr);
>>  string s = parsed["fail"].str;
>>  writeln(s == "");
>>  writeln(s is null);
>>  writeln(s);
>> }
>>
>> Running "rdmd app.d" doesn't produce any output.
>> Can anyone explain such a behavior???
>>
>>
>> PS: Running dmd v2.065 on Linux x64.
>
> It's a bug in std.json (you should get a segfault, not no 
> output at all)
>
> It is fixed now and I'm pretty sure it will be in 2.066
>
> std.json has been improved a lot, but I would still recommend 
> using http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/ instead

perhaps "bug" is too strong a word, but it was a deficiency that 
is now corrected. You will get an exception thrown now and 
everything should work how you expect.