Nope, I was wrong on this one. The problem here is the JSON data is
malformed. The data has this:
"Ratings:"
[],
but it should be this:
"Ratings":
[],
The name delimiter is inside the quotes, not outside. Looks like a
lazy coding error at IMDB.
Rick
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:07 PM Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's already code in there to return an empty array. I suspect the
> problem is the newline character before the "[". It is not being recognized
> as an array item.
>
> Rick
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:57 PM Rony G. Flatscher <
> rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1709/> reports an error with the
>> current implementation of
>> json parsing, supplying a short script and test data demonstrating the
>> error.
>>
>> Researching on the Internet there are various opinions/expectations that
>> people have, e.g.
>> <
>> https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=json+empty+array+or+null
>> >.
>>
>> Personally I would agree with
>> <
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9619852/what-is-the-convention-in-json-for-empty-vs-null/9623521
>> >,
>> i.e. if an array or map is empty, return an empty array resp. empty map
>> instead of .nil following
>> the Rexx philosophy of "least surprise". (Json
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> ---rony
>>
>>
>>
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