Re: json api WIP patch

On 01/08/2013 03:12 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 01/08/2013 09:58 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> If you have such a datum, parsing it involves having it in memory and 
>> then taking a copy (I wonder if we could avoid that step - will take 
>> a look).
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> Here is a Proof Of Concept patch against my development tip on what's 
> involved in getting the JSON lexer not to need a nul-terminated string 
> to parse. This passes regression, incidentally. The downside is that 
> processing is very slightly more complex, and that json_in() would 
> need to call strlen() on its input. The upside would be that the 
> processing routines I've been working on would no longer need to 
> create copies of their json arguments using text_to_cstring() just so 
> they can get a null-terminated string to process.
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> Consequent changes would modify the signature of makeJsonLexContext() 
> so it's first argument would be a text* instead of a char* (and of 
> course its logic would change accordingly).
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> I could go either way. Thoughts?
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>

this time with patch ...