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  1. checksums.yaml +4 -4
  2. data/.gitignore +0 -1
  3. data/.travis.yml +5 -3
  4. data/CHANGES +5 -5
  5. data/Gemfile +3 -1
  6. data/README.md +131 -84
  7. data/Rakefile +17 -10
  8. data/VERSION +1 -1
  9. data/ext/json/ext/generator/generator.c +1 -52
  10. data/ext/json/ext/generator/generator.h +0 -5
  11. data/ext/json/ext/parser/extconf.rb +3 -0
  12. data/ext/json/ext/parser/parser.c +304 -458
  13. data/ext/json/ext/parser/parser.h +0 -1
  14. data/ext/json/ext/parser/parser.rl +35 -152
  15. data/ext/json/extconf.rb +0 -1
  16. data/java/src/json/ext/Generator.java +2 -5
  17. data/java/src/json/ext/GeneratorState.java +2 -54
  18. data/java/src/json/ext/OptionsReader.java +1 -1
  19. data/java/src/json/ext/Parser.java +109 -409
  20. data/java/src/json/ext/Parser.rl +24 -117
  21. data/java/src/json/ext/RuntimeInfo.java +0 -4
  22. data/json.gemspec +0 -0
  23. data/json_pure.gemspec +7 -7
  24. data/lib/json.rb +1 -0
  25. data/lib/json/add/bigdecimal.rb +1 -0
  26. data/lib/json/add/complex.rb +2 -1
  27. data/lib/json/add/core.rb +1 -0
  28. data/lib/json/add/date.rb +1 -1
  29. data/lib/json/add/date_time.rb +1 -1
  30. data/lib/json/add/exception.rb +1 -1
  31. data/lib/json/add/ostruct.rb +1 -1
  32. data/lib/json/add/range.rb +1 -1
  33. data/lib/json/add/rational.rb +1 -0
  34. data/lib/json/add/regexp.rb +1 -1
  35. data/lib/json/add/struct.rb +1 -1
  36. data/lib/json/add/symbol.rb +1 -1
  37. data/lib/json/add/time.rb +1 -1
  38. data/lib/json/common.rb +24 -52
  39. data/lib/json/ext.rb +0 -6
  40. data/lib/json/generic_object.rb +5 -4
  41. data/lib/json/pure.rb +2 -8
  42. data/lib/json/pure/generator.rb +51 -123
  43. data/lib/json/pure/parser.rb +28 -80
  44. data/lib/json/version.rb +2 -1
  45. data/references/rfc7159.txt +899 -0
  46. data/tests/fixtures/obsolete_fail1.json +1 -0
  47. data/tests/{test_json_addition.rb → json_addition_test.rb} +22 -25
  48. data/tests/json_common_interface_test.rb +126 -0
  49. data/tests/json_encoding_test.rb +105 -0
  50. data/tests/json_ext_parser_test.rb +15 -0
  51. data/tests/{test_json_fixtures.rb → json_fixtures_test.rb} +5 -8
  52. data/tests/{test_json_generate.rb → json_generator_test.rb} +65 -37
  53. data/tests/{test_json_generic_object.rb → json_generic_object_test.rb} +15 -8
  54. data/tests/json_parser_test.rb +448 -0
  55. data/tests/json_string_matching_test.rb +38 -0
  56. data/tests/test_helper.rb +23 -0
  57. data/tools/fuzz.rb +1 -9
  58. metadata +19 -32
  59. data/TODO +0 -1
  60. data/tests/fixtures/fail1.json +0 -1
  61. data/tests/setup_variant.rb +0 -11
  62. data/tests/test_json.rb +0 -519
  63. data/tests/test_json_encoding.rb +0 -65
  64. data/tests/test_json_string_matching.rb +0 -39
  65. data/tests/test_json_unicode.rb +0 -72
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+ 1.1. Conventions Used in This Document ..........................4
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+ Applications that use this media type:
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+ 12. Security Considerations
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+ Generally, there are security issues with scripting languages. JSON
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+ 13. Examples
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+ This is a JSON object:
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+ Here are three small JSON texts containing only values:
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+ 14. Contributors
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+ RFC 4627 was written by Douglas Crockford. This document was
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+ constructed by making a relatively small number of changes to that
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+ document; thus, the vast majority of the text here is his.
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+ 15. References
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+ 15.1. Normative References
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+ [IEEE754] IEEE, "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic", IEEE
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+ Standard 754, August 2008,
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+ <http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/>.
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+ [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
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+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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+ [RFC5234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
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+ Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.
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+ [UNICODE] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard",
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+ Appendix A. Changes from RFC 4627
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+ This section lists changes between this document and the text in RFC
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+ o Changed the title and abstract of the document.
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+ o Changed the reference to [UNICODE] to be not version specific.
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+ o Added a "Specifications of JSON" section.
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+ o Added an "Introduction to This Revision" section.
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+ o Changed the definition of "JSON text" so that it can be any JSON
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+ o Added language about duplicate object member names, member
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+ o Clarified the absence of a requirement that values in an array be
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+ o Applied erratum #607 from RFC 4627 to correctly align the artwork
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+ o Changed "as sequences of digits" to "in the grammar below" in the
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+ o Added language about interoperability and Unicode characters and
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+ o Updated and tidied the "IANA Considerations" section.
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+ o Applied erratum #3607 from RFC 4627 by removing the security
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+ o Added a note to the "Security Considerations" section pointing out
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+ o Added a note to the "IANA Considerations" clarifying the absence
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+ of a "charset" parameter for the application/json media type.
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+ o Changed "100" to 100 and added a boolean field, both in the first
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+ o Added examples of JSON texts with simple values, neither objects
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+ o Added a reference to RFC 4627.
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+ o Moved the ECMAScript reference from Normative to Informative and
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+ updated it to reference ECMAScript 5.1, and added a reference to
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+ Author's Address
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+ Tim Bray (editor)
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