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Re:Never use a dependency that you could replace with an aft... by JackFr on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:43PM (#24127233)
It may not be JSON but it’s out there in the wild. A lot.

Let’s say I’m scraping a website. I can:

1) complain to the owner that “it’s not JSON”.

2) write a parser for a syntax that has no spec, (it’s not JSON, but it sure looks an awful lot like JSON with unquoted keys.)

or

3) Set ALLOW_UNQUOTED_FIELD_NAMES to true in the Jackson library.

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