null characters in strings
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Description
Hi Rainer,
Would you be willing to overthink your decision to not handle NULL bytes inside strings? It would be nice if we can rely on the library to recognize all valid json input, even when it contains these NULL bytes.
Emiel
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No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing parsing of JSON strings containing NULL bytes and then locate the string-parsing path in libfastjson. Done means valid JSON containing NULL bytes is recognized without breaking existing parsing behavior.
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- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- 25/100