Re: luajson vs. null

[Alejandro Mery <amery@...>]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 13:28, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, list!
>
> I wrote a small tool to convert JSON data to Lua (using luajson:
> http://github.com/harningt/luajson):
>
> http://github.com/agladysh/json2lua/blob/master/json2lua
>
> However, there is a problem with nulls inside JSON data. The
> json.decode() inserts json.util.null() there, but, to get serializable
> output, I need Lua nils.
>
> I don't want to recursively traverse loaded data and replace nulls with nils.
>
> Is luajson author here? Can something be done? I suggest adding
> optional flag to json.decode().

if it would decode to `nil` you wouldn't be able to know about the
existance of that field at all, you need this json.util.null to
distinguish null data from no data