Re: [boost] 1.59 release notes don't mention new property_tree::json_parser

Subject: Re: [boost] 1.59 release notes don't mention new property_tree::json_parser
From: Viktor Sehr (viktor.sehr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-10 02:47:01

Same thing happened to me, suddenly my application stopped to work. I
really think it should accept comments.

/Viktor

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> The commit logs say:
>
>     TL;DR: The new parser fixes long-standing bugs and has full
> Unicode support, but removes non-standard extensions
>    of the old parser, which could break code:
>    - String concatenation: the old parser concatenated adjacent string
> literals like C does.
>    - Comments: the old parser supported C and C++-style comments. JSON
> doesn't allow comments.
>
>
> Removing support for comments did break something. Unfortunately there
> was no sign of this in the release notes, so I had to debug it the
> hard way (in code that swallowed the exception from the parser - gah!)
> and only found the commit message once I already knew what the problem
> was.
>
> </rant>
>
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