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Why restrict to 54-bit signed integers? Is there some common language I'm not thinking of that has this as its limit?
Edit: Found it myself, it's the range where you can store an integer in a double precision float without error. I suppose that makes sense for maximum compatibility, but feels gross if we're already identifying value types. I don't come from a web-dev/js background, though, so maybe it makes more sense there.
A summary:
An old proposal (2015, not sure why OP posted it now), that basically proposes to put some more standards and limitations around JSON formatting to make it more predictable. Most of it seems pretty reasonable:
It recommends:
Honestly, the only part of this I dislike is the order of keys not mattering. I get that in a bunch of languages they use dictionary objects that don't preserve order, but backend languages have a lot more headroom to adapt and create objects that can, vs making a JavaScript thread loop over an object an extra time to reorder it every time it receives data.
Personally, I prefer duplicate keys to be eaten by the parser but I can see how it'd be beneficial to prevent them.
I'm honestly unsure if they intend the 'must-ignore' policy to mean to eat duplicate keys without erroring, or just to eat keys that are unexpected based on some contract or schema....
Just skimmed but seems like a decent idea. Not that I've knowingly run into issues parsing JSON too much
It's from 2015, so its probably what you are doing anyway
It’s from 2015, so its probably what you are doing anyway
No, you are probably not using this at all. The problem with JSON is that this details are all handled in an implementation-defined way, and most implementation just fail/round silently.
Just give it a try and send down the wire a JSON with, say, a huge integer, and see if that triggers a parsing error. For starters, in .NET both Newtonsoft and System.Text.Json set a limit of 64 bits.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.json.jsonserializeroptions.maxdepth
