You were faster! :) Do you therefore want to comment on the bug <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1709/>?
---rony On 14.06.2020 19:14, Rick McGuire wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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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