[aur-dev] Absence of terminating newline in RPC requests

[Alad Wenter]

Johannes Löthberg via aur-dev schreef op 2016-09-22 20:23:
> Hey,
> 
> On 22/09, Alad Wenter wrote:
>> JSON from the RPC interface seems to not contain a terminating 
>> newline,
>> regardless of version or type specified. I am curious if there is a
>> particular reason for this, as the POSIX standard defines text files 
>> to
>> contain lines with terminating newlines. [1] [2]
>> 
>> This is more noticeable when merging the resulting files to a valid 
>> JSON
>> structure, e.g. to display the union of various search results. As a
>> comparison, journalctl - json does terminate lines with a newline.
>> 
> 
> The RPC just returns whatever json_encode gave it, and doesn't do
> anything manual to the data returned.  (And they're not actually files
> at any stage, so what POSIX wants doesn't matter much. ;))
> 
> Anyway, we could definitely add it, but every json tool should
> definitely be able to handle them as it is.  Examples of ones that
> don't?

True, I haven't had issues with json tools regarding a (lack of) 
terminating newlines. Some tools like jshon do have an issue with 
several requests pasted together, unless you insert some commas. In that 
sense I wondered on how the RPC terminates its output, and how it may do 
so in the future.

Of course, if/when we get POST requests [1], you no longer have to think 
on merging JSON. :)

Thanks,

Alad

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49089