Parsing JSON is a Minefield by Nicolas Seriot.
Description:
JSON is the de facto standard when it comes to (un)serialising and exchanging data in web and mobile programming. But how well do you really know JSON? We’ll read the specifications and write test cases together. We’ll test common JSON libraries against our test cases. I’ll show that JSON is not the easy, idealised format as many do believe. Indeed, I did not find two libraries that exhibit the very same behaviour. Moreover, I found that edge cases and maliciously crafted payloads can cause bugs, crashes and denial of services, mainly because JSON libraries rely on specifications that have evolved over time and that let many details loosely specified or not specified at all.
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Or the summary (tweet) that caught my attention:
I published: Parsing JSON is a Minefield  http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php … in which I could not find two parsers that exhibited the same behaviour
Or consider this graphic, which in truth needs a larger format than even the original:
Don’t worry, you can’t read the original at its default resolution. I had to enlarge the view several times to get a legible display.
More suitable for a poster sized print.
Perhaps something to consider for Balisage 2017 as swag?
Excellent work and a warning against the current vogue of half-ass standardization in some circles.
“We know what we meant” is a sure sign of poor standards work.