Bug #68240 for JSON-Any: malformed JSON string

Mon May 16 12:43:08 2011 AWNCORP [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Test case A: my $meta = WWW::CPAN->new->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Spreadsheet-Perl', author => 'NKH', format => 'json' }); Error: ERROR: malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at C:/str awberry/perl/site/lib/JSON/Any.pm line 527, <IN> line 21. Test case B: my $meta = WWW::CPAN->new->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Net-VNC', author => 'LBROCARD', format => 'json' }); Error: ERROR: malformed UTF-8 character in JSON string, at character offset 65 (before "\x{9bee} Brocard <lb...") at C:/strawberry/perl/site/l ib/JSON/Any.pm line 527, <IN> line 27.

Mon May 16 13:01:07 2011 chris [...] prather.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #68240]
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 13:00:57 -0400
To:	bug-JSON-Any [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Chris Prather <chris [...] prather.org>

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Al Newkirk via RT <bug-JSON-Any@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Mon May 16 12:43:08 2011: Request 68240 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by AWNCORP > Queue: JSON-Any > Subject: (No subject given) > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: AWNCORP@cpan.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68240 > > > > Test case A: > my $meta = WWW::CPAN->new->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Spreadsheet-Perl', > author => 'NKH', format => 'json' }); > > Error: > ERROR: malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or > atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at C:/str > awberry/perl/site/lib/JSON/Any.pm line 527, <IN> line 21. > > Test case B: > my $meta = WWW::CPAN->new->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Net-VNC', author => > 'LBROCARD', format => 'json' }); > > Error: > ERROR: malformed UTF-8 character in JSON string, at character offset 65 > (before "\x{9bee} Brocard <lb...") at C:/strawberry/perl/site/l > ib/JSON/Any.pm line 527, <IN> line 27. >

You'll need to show me the JSON it is trying to parse. JSON::Any does not actually do any of the parsing itself, it is simply a wrapper for other JSON parsers. -Chris

Mon May 16 13:01:08 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon May 16 13:09:50 2011 we [...] ana.im - Correspondence added

CC:	AWNCORP [...] cpan.org
Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #68240]
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 13:09:40 -0400
To:	bug-JSON-Any [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Al Newkirk & Associates" <we [...] ana.im>

Test case B: http://search.cpan.org/meta/LBROCARD/Net-VNC/META.json <http://search.cpan.org/meta/LBROCARD/Net-VNC/META.json>Test case A: http://search.cpan.org/meta/NKH/Spreadsheet-Perl/META.json -- should probably return an empty json object On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, chris@prather.org via RT < bug-JSON-Any@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68240 > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Al Newkirk via RT > <bug-JSON-Any@rt.cpan.org> wrote:

> > Mon May 16 12:43:08 2011: Request 68240 was acted upon. > > Transaction: Ticket created by AWNCORP > > Queue: JSON-Any > > Subject: (No subject given) > > Broken in: (no value) > > Severity: (no value) > > Owner: Nobody > > Requestors: AWNCORP@cpan.org > > Status: new > > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68240 > > > > > > > Test case A: > > my $meta = WWW::CPAN->new->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Spreadsheet-Perl', > > author => 'NKH', format => 'json' }); > > > > Error: > > ERROR: malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or > > atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at C:/str > > awberry/perl/site/lib/JSON/Any.pm line 527, <IN> line 21. > > > > Test case B: > > my $meta = WWW::CPAN->new->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Net-VNC', author => > > 'LBROCARD', format => 'json' }); > > > > Error: > > ERROR: malformed UTF-8 character in JSON string, at character offset 65 > > (before "\x{9bee} Brocard <lb...") at C:/strawberry/perl/site/l > > ib/JSON/Any.pm line 527, <IN> line 27. > >

> > > You'll need to show me the JSON it is trying to parse. > > JSON::Any does not actually do any of the parsing itself, it is simply > a wrapper for other JSON parsers. > > -Chris > >

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Thu Apr 17 23:36:05 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

Fri Apr 18 17:38:08 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from (no value) to 'malformed JSON string'

Fri Apr 18 17:40:02 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

JSON::Any just proxies the file to one of the backends; it doesn't actually do any decoding itself. You didn't provide any details in the report that indicated which backend was in use. However, in the last year there has been a lot of churn with META.json generation concerning utf8 and unicode encoding; it is quite possible that the meta files in question were badly generated. Please feel free to open a new ticket with more diagnostics if you see this again, but otherwise, I don't think there's anything we can do.

Fri Apr 18 17:40:03 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'open'

Fri Apr 18 17:40:07 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'