On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Craig Duncan <p...@duncanc.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi internals. > > As my initial thread about introducing warnings to the JSON functions was > not immediately flooded with disagreement I took the liberty of creating an > RFC for official discussion. > > The proposal is to have `json_encode()` and `json_decode()` raise warnings > whenever a failure occurs, instead of requiring the developer to call > `json_last_error()` each time. > > The functionality of `json_last_error()` and `json_last_error_msg()` are > unaffected and they can still be used in exactly the same way they are > today > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/json_encode_decode_errors > > Thanks, > Craig > Operations that are expected to fail should never generate warnings. We should not design functions such that their correct use requires the use of the error suppression operator. I certainly agree that the current situation is not good and that the json functions really ought to be throwing exceptions, but adding a warning now is only going to make this worse. Nikita
