Hashes in JSON output are not deterministically ordered
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Description
When I create an SPDX document with multiple hashes on a package, the order of the hashes in the output json varies.
The hashes should follow a deterministic ordering.
Please let us know whether we shall prepare an PR for this. Perhaps it must be generalized to other output formats as well to produce comparable outputs.
Regards,
Karsten
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Research direction
Start in the tools-java code path that serializes SPDX package hashes to JSON, using an SPDX document with multiple hashes to reproduce the varying order. Trace how hashes are collected and emitted, then confirm that repeated JSON output is deterministic and check whether the same concern applies to other output formats.
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- Tech stack
- java
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- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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