Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/8] examples/power: add json string handling

["Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>]

On 25-Sep-18 4:15 PM, Hunt, David wrote:

>>>> What happens if someone sends a string with a "{" or "}" inside?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If we get to the end of the buffer without a "}", it calls the 
>>> library to convert, will fail, and move on.  No damage done (I hope).
>>> Also, a short un-terminated (by "}") string will also exit when no 
>>> characters read.
>>> So any invalid JSON string that's send to Jansson will fail to parse, 
>>> and the application will be ready for the next (hopefully valid) JSON 
>>> string.
>>
>> No, what i meant is something like this:
>>
>> { "json_value": "{"}
>>
>> According to JSON validator, this is a valid JSON string, but it will 
>> break your code :)
>>
> 
> You are correct if this code was designed to be a general purpose JSON 
> string reader. However, it's only designed to take in strings for this 
> sample application, and they do not expect any brace characters embedded 
> within quotes. So I think it's OK for this use case. Patches welcome, 
> though! :)
> 

Fair enough :)

> Thanks,
> Dave.
> 
> 
> 


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Thanks,
Anatoly