digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 15410] New: std.json documentation implies you *must* assign
- via Digitalmars-d-bugs (50/50) Dec 05 2015 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15410
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15410 Issue ID: 15410 Summary: std.json documentation implies you *must* assign an AA literal to create an object Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: phobos Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: dhasenan gmail.com opIndex(string) says: "Throws JSONException if type is not JSON_TYPE.OBJECT." This implies the correct way to create a JSONValue of type OBJECT, assuming you don't want to use an AA literal, is: --- JSONValue j; j.type = JSON_TYPE.OBJECT; j["key"] = "value"; --- However, when you try that, the compiler warns: Deprecation: function std.json.JSONValue.type is deprecated - Please assign the value with the adequate type to JSONValue directly. In my use case, it would be unnatural and troublesome to assign an AA literal directly. So now I'm looking for a magic incantation that will maybe work. I could try something like: --- JSONValue j = ["": ""]; j.remove("");; --- Except JSONValue, as far as the documentation states, is append-only. (Is it really? Who knows?) That leaves only one method to create an empty JSON object: --- JSONValue j = "{}".parseJSON; --- That's terrible. However! The documentation is actually wrong! I can just write: --- JSONValue j; j["key"] = "value"; --- That works! The documentation told me it would throw an exception, so there was no reason for me to try it. It was guaranteed to me that it would fail. But instead it succeeded. This is making me bitter and jaded. --
Dec 05 2015