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encoding/json: doc on valid key names is outdated #15317

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glasser opened this issue Apr 15, 2016 · 6 comments
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encoding/json: doc on valid key names is outdated #15317

glasser opened this issue Apr 15, 2016 · 6 comments
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glasser commented Apr 15, 2016 •
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On master, the documentation for json.Marshal says:

// The key name will be used if it's a non-empty string consisting of
// only Unicode letters, digits, dollar signs, percent signs, hyphens,
// underscores and slashes.

However, this is quite outdated. The current list of allowed characters consists of letters, digits, space, and these punctuation characters: !#$%&()*+-./:<=>?@[]^_{|}~

I'm happy to send a Gerrit CL to fix this but am curious about what people think would be better: literally listing this set of characters, or saying something like "most punctuation characters, excluding backslash, quotes, and comma"?
@bradfitz bradfitz added this to the Go1.7 milestone Apr 15, 2016
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What are you trying to link to? There is no line 7540 in that file?

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glasser commented Apr 15, 2016

Whoops, my fingers must have slipped and added an extra 0. Link fixed.

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I see. Yeah, I don't think we want that soup of punctuation near English.

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glasser commented Apr 15, 2016

Something like:

Valid key names can contain Unicode letters, digits, spaces, and some punctuation marks (not including quotes, backslash, or comma). If the key name is not valid, the default name is used.

?

@quentinmit quentinmit added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label May 26, 2016
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rsc commented May 27, 2016

This is the right text (fix the text, don't rewrite it):

// The key name will be used if it's a non-empty string consisting of
// only Unicode letters, digits, and ASCII punctuation except quotation
// marks, backslash, and comma.

@rsc rsc modified the milestones: Go1.7Maybe, Go1.7 May 27, 2016
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CL https://golang.org/cl/23691 mentions this issue.

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