JuliaIO / JuliaIO/JSON.jl

Improve Error Handling by proving path to error in JSON.

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Description

It would be very helpful to get the path in the json provided to where the error is coming from.
e.g. when I pass a number where there should be an object, I get the error: "applyeach not applicable for JSON.LazyValue{String} with JSON type = JSONTypes.NUMBER".
(if I pass "percent": 0.1 instead of "percent": {"value": 0.1})

It would be much better, if a path to the error is added, like "applyeach not applicable for JSON.LazyValue{String} with JSON type = JSONTypes.NUMBER at /path/to/percent ".

Thanks!

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Start by locating the applyeach error path in JSON.jl and trace how the current JSON location is handled while nested values are processed. Add the failing value's path to the error message, then verify that the example with percent as a number reports the path to percent.

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Tech stack
julia
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data
Issue type
Feature
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