JuliaIO / JuliaIO/JSON.jl

Comment support

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enhancement
Dominant language
Julia
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Description

It would be nice if comments in json files would be supported so a file like this:

{
    // We choose this awesome value
     "a": "value for key A"
}

Would generate a dictionary like:

Dict("a" => "value for key A")

Alternatively we could support the JSON5 standard

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Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue, so first locate JSON.jl's parser entry point and existing parsing tests. Clarify whether the intended scope is jsonc comments or full JSON5 support, then add coverage for the example and verify that ordinary JSON parsing remains unchanged.

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Assessment

Tech stack
julia
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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