Both lexer and parser reject invalid escape sequences in strings. The
parser's check is useless.
The lexer ends the token right after the first non-well-formed byte.
This tends to lead to suboptimal error reporting. For instance, input
{"abc\@ijk": 1}
produces the tokens
JSON_LCURLY {
JSON_ERROR "abc\@
JSON_KEYWORD ijk
JSON_ERROR ": 1}\n
The parser then reports three errors
Invalid JSON syntax
JSON parse error, invalid keyword 'ijk'
Invalid JSON syntax
before it recovers at the newline.
Drop the lexer's escape sequence checking, and make it accept the same
characters after backslash it accepts elsewhere in strings. It now
produces
JSON_LCURLY {
JSON_STRING "abc\@ijk"
JSON_COLON :
JSON_INTEGER 1
JSON_RCURLY
and the parser reports just
JSON parse error, invalid escape sequence in string
While there, fix parse_string()'s inaccurate function comment.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180823164025.12553-27-armbru@redhat.com>
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