Re: [Boost-users] boost::property_tree::read_json fails on previously supported comments 1.59

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::property_tree::read_json fails on previously supported comments 1.59
From: Millman, Mark (mark.millman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-18 14:14:17

Yes, I understand and acknowledge that unfortunately JSON does not
officially support comments.  I consider it a significant issue with the
standard.  I like to use JSON in preference to XML (let alone INI) for
parameter files and have a considerable suite of programs that leverage
it.  The parameter files can be quite complex and the master templates are
all annotated to provide users with the acceptable options and ranges.

So, it's unfortunate but I'll blame JSON and not Boost.  I'll just write a
file-to-stream reader that strips out the comments and pass the stream to
read_json.

Still a "Booster" Mark.

(How much do you want to be that they add comments to the JSON standard
next month?) msm ;-)

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Agustín K-ballo Bergé <
kaballo86_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 12/18/2015 3:51 PM, Millman, Mark wrote:
>
>> If this is an official upgrade -- to no longer support comments -- then
>> I'll write myself a file-to-stream comment stripper and pass the stream
>> to read_json.
>>
>> As a consumer of JSON and Boost it seems like a poor choice to drop
>> something that is so useful and has been supported for so long.
>>
>
> I understand your position, but something "just working" is not the same
> than something being supported. I cannot find any mention of nonstandard
> comment support in the documentation for 1.58. All I see is a link to a
> Wikipedia article, which reads "JSON does not provide or allow any sort of
> comment syntax".
>
>
> Regards,
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