From: coyote4til7 at gmail dot com
Operating system: Linux
PHP version: 5.2.6
PHP Bug Type: JSON related
Bug description: json_decode fails on json representing javascript objects
Description:
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When you encode a proper javascript object as json and then use the
json_decode function, it fails.
The keys in Javascript objects are _not_ supposed to be quoted. If you're
going to store a json-encoded object (say in a database) and then reuse it
later in javascript, quoting the keys so that php's json_decode function
works means that you're counting on the browser's javascript to support
something that is not supported by the javascript specification.
Reproduce code:
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// In javascript, we have an object:
// var obj = { parent_id:-1,label:"label" };
//
// In javascript, the keys for objects are _not_ quoted by
// single or double quotes. So, if we're going to properly encode
// this to later reuse it in javascript, we get this sent to php:
$json = '[{parent_id:-1,label:"label"}]';
// Let's try to convert it:
var_dump(json_decode($json, true));
Expected result:
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{ ["parent_id"]=> int(-1) ["label"]=> string(5) "label" }
Actual result:
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NULL
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Submitted twice:
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