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Commit f7617d45 authored by Markus Armbruster's avatar Markus Armbruster
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json: Leave rejecting invalid interpolation to parser


Both lexer and parser reject invalid interpolation specifications.
The parser's check is useless.

The lexer ends the token right after the first bad character.  This
tends to lead to suboptimal error reporting.  For instance, input

    [ %04d ]

produces the tokens

    JSON_LSQUARE  [
    JSON_ERROR    %0
    JSON_INTEGER  4
    JSON_KEYWORD  d
    JSON_RSQUARE  ]

The parser then yields an error, an object and two more errors:

    error: Invalid JSON syntax
    object: 4
    error: JSON parse error, invalid keyword
    error: JSON parse error, expecting value

Dumb down the lexer to accept [A-Za-z0-9]*.  The parser's check is now
used.  Emit a proper error there.

The lexer now produces

    JSON_LSQUARE  [
    JSON_INTERP   %04d
    JSON_RSQUARE  ]

and the parser reports just

    JSON parse error, invalid interpolation '%04d'

Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180823164025.12553-41-armbru@redhat.com>
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