Relaxed JSON

[gonzus]

I am using jansson in one of my personal projects, and loving it.

Question: any plans to support a "relaxed" version of JSON, for some definition of relaxed? From the top of my head:

• Support some form of comments: //, maybe #, even /* ... */:

  // this is the JSON config for my frobnicator
  {
  "schema": "frobnicate",
  // ...
  }

• Support trailing commas at the end of arrays / objects (which makes it easier to reformat / move things around):

  [
  "first string",
  {
      "foo": 42,
      "bar": true,
  },
  "another one",
  "final string!",
  ],

• Support object keys without quotes: { foo: 1, bar: "hello" }.
• Support quoting with ' in addition to ": { bilbo: "I'd like that", frodo: 'He is "away"' }.

Thanks!

[gsmecher]

YAML (http://yaml.org) gives you all of these features, and JSON5 (http://json5.org) or HJSON (https://www.npmjs.com/package/hjson) give you most of them. There may be good C parsers for these formats, but Jansson is a JSON parser and these extensions are objectively not JSON.

(#13, #215, #232, #235, ...)

[gonzus]

Thanks for the pointers. JSON5 looks like an almost perfect fit for what I am looking for. But I also see how this has been raised in the past and the author has decided not to support it. His project, his rules.

Cheers!

[gsmecher]

Thanks for understanding. (FWIW, I do genuinely understand the appeal of these extensions.)