serdejsonlenient

This is a lenient JSON parser forked from the serde_json crate that is that is designed to parse JSON written by humans (e.g., JSON config files). This means that it supports:

• /* and // style comments.
• Trailing commas for object and array literals.
• \v and \xDD literal escapes (for vertical tab and two-digit hexadecimal characters)
• [planned] Unquoted object keys (precise spec TBD).

Each such feature is switchable.

Earlier work to make serde_json more lenient was performed by Michael Bolin as the crate serdejsonrc. This crate builds on his work and updates to more recent [serdejson].

Why not make serde_json more lenient?

The maintainer wanted to keep the scope of serde_json limited to strict JSON, so we respectfully agreed that forking was the way to go.

License

Because serdejsonlenient is a fork of serde_json, it maintains the original licence, which means it is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in serdejsonlenient by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.