On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, at 2:11 PM, juan carlos morales wrote: > Hello Internals. > > I'm here to discuss an improvement in error messages when dealing with > JSON in PHP. > > After watching Derick Rethans speak at the UK PHP Conference: > > https://youtu.be/3U0DGhzSH2U?feature=shared&t=2483 > > I also think it would be very useful to have better error messages. > > At the moment, we get things like "Syntax Error" ... period, no clue > where the JSON is corrupt or anything else. With big JSONs is very > cumberstone to get to the line and character position where the JSON > is corrupt .... for example. > > I am already working in a change that would improve error messages > while working with JSONs. > > What I am very close to achieve is to have error messages like "Syntax > Error - at character position X near content Y" .... something like > that. > > I already know that I can do it, actually there is a Work In Progress > Pull Request for this : > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/14672 > > > I repeat, is work in progress. BUT it can be done. Maybe my approach > is not the best ... but one way or another .... it can be done. > > Please let me know your ideas, thoughts about this. > > Please, dont kill me for the actual code, is WIP. > > Thanks in advance to everyone. > > Juan
I cannot comment on the implementation, but I am always in favor of error messages that do a better job of telling you what you need to fix. --Larry Garfield
