Hello! I would like to discuss a draft RFC that adds two independent and opt-in flags to ext/json for PHP 8.7:
- JSON_ALLOW_COMMENTS - JSON_ALLOW_TRAILING_COMMAS Both flags would be accepted by json_decode() and json_validate(). Strict JSON would remain the default. Comments are limited to // and non-nesting /* ... */ at JSON whitespace boundaries. Trailing commas permit one comma after the last element or member of a nonempty array or object. The implementation processes comments in the existing re2c scanner. It handles trailing commas in the existing Bison grammar. It does not preprocess or copy the input, so it preserves strings and original source locations. The RFC uses two primary votes so that either extension can be accepted independently. Draft implementation is located here: <https://github.com/php/php- src/pull/23336> Recently I also published a similar PHP library: <https://github.com/otar/jsonc> I would particularly appreciate feedback on the API names and the inclusion of json_validate(). Feedback on the specified UTF-8, control- character, and error-location behavior would also be useful. Otar
