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A more laissez faire JSON parser #21

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trishankatdatadog opened this issue Dec 26, 2020 · 0 comments
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A more laissez faire JSON parser #21

trishankatdatadog opened this issue Dec 26, 2020 · 0 comments
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Currently, the JSON parser is too unforgiving: it will vomit and balk on the first unexpected field.

However, why should we do so? Why not just accept whatever we recognize, so long as it is valid for our purposes, and ignore the rest? What are the security issues here?
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