Raise again this discussion as no feedback on pecl ML.
Trying to solve https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520
I start to work on a dropin alternative for current json extension in php.
Current work:
https://github.com/remicollet/pecl-json-c
It is obviously to late for PHP 5.5, and need probably more feedback,
more tests, and more work before a RFC for PHP 5.6 (or later).
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json_encode : same code than php 5.5, no difference
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json_decode : wrapper over json-c 0.11 library.
Difference:
- error code returned by the parser are different (so only
PHP_JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX and PHP_JSON_ERROR_DEPTH are used) - number only parse as integer (no automatic cast to double)
- loose of performance (but still acceptable, I think)
New feature: as json-c is an incremental parser, a new class is
available to allow incremental parsing (for large json encoded data)
Proposal:
1/ update existing pecl/json extension
- on pecl for older PHP 5.3 - 5.5
- on php-src in master / 5.6
OR
2/ new pecl/json-c extension
- PHP will keep the non free code
Should I open a RFC ?
Regards,
Remi.
P.S. I have tried to contact Omar, original author of this extension,
without any success.