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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.9.2 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/Markus/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.9.2/libexec"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.9.2/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/bf/kbhmwc8j7nx3kjb285knl23c0000gn/T/go-build616159285=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

What did you do?

Process a file with JSON as a stream use json.Decoder.Token.

I try to use the SyntraxError.Offset to determine the line+pos of the error, for feedback to the user.

Minimal example:

https://play.golang.org/p/qPF2KKaESe

package main

import (
"fmt"
"encoding/json"
"strings"
)

func main() {
dec := json.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader({"foo": "bar"error}))

for {
	_, err := dec.Token()
	if err != nil {
		syntax := err.(*json.SyntaxError)
		fmt.Printf("offset: %d (expected 13)", syntax.Offset)
		return
	}
}

}

What did you expect to see?

I expect SyntaxError.Offset to be the byte offset into the Reader passed to DecoderNew.

What did you see instead?

It seems that the method Decoder.Token in the json package returns an SyntaxError with Offset always set to 0.