Jq: `jq` allows raw tab character in strings, which seems to be an extension to main JSON specs

[hauleth]

As it would be braking change, I think there should be additional flag --strict that would allow only documents that are valid JSON according to spec, with no extensions.

[nicowilliams]

@hauleth We once had a bug where jq allowed unquoted newlines in strings. We did not consider fixing that a breaking change.

[nicowilliams]

./jq .
"       "
parse error: Invalid string: control characters from U+0000 through U+001F must be escaped at line 1, column 3

[nicowilliams]

That's jq in master. What version did you see this bug in?

[hauleth]

Current stable 1.5 (installed via HomeBrew).

[hauleth]

It would be nice to see jq to be ran against JSON test suite by Nicolas Seriot.

[nicowilliams]

Thanks for the link.

[pkoppstein]

It would be nice to see jq to be ran against JSON test suite by Nicolas Seriot.

Actually, this has been done: see e.g. https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1264

[nicowilliams]

Ah, thx for pointing that out @pkoppstein.