[ANN] LuaJSON-1.2 Released

["Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>]

A new release of my LuaJSON highly customizable LPeg-based JSON parser
+ encoder has finally been released.  It doesn't have the better
syntax error tracing that was targetted for this release, but it
brings it closer.

A rock has been posted to LuaRocks, so it should soon be available via
"luarocks install luajson 1.2"
Feel free to check it out from github @
http://github.com/harningt/luajson or luaforge @
http://luaforge.net/projects/luajson

Any bug reports/feature requests, please post in the 'issues' system
integrated with github, or email me.
I used to use Lighthouse to manage releases/bugs/etc... but it
requires a separate login for anybody else to commit, so I went with
github's system to reduce the barrier to post...

Here's a copy of the release notes:
luajson v1.2 Release Notes
==========================

Tested LPeg versions:

 * 0.9 - pass
 * 0.8 - pass
 * 0.7 - pass
 * 0.6 - fail : cannot handle 'nil' returns -> tranforms into booleans

Note that 0.6 passes strict mode tests and behaviors.  It just breaks
down when decoding the plain return value `null` or `undefined` that
would result in a `nil` return value.

User Visible Changes
--------------------

setObjectKey
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks to Alexander Gladysh, we now have the "setObjectKey"
hook to permit more customizable behavior during object construction.

There is a new 'object' option that you can set to handle custom
key-value setting.  If you set in the configuration table
.object.setObjectKey to a function with the signature
`(tab, key, value)`, you will override the `rawset` style behavior.

Example:
   json.decode("{'1':true, x:true}")
       --> { ["1"] = true, x = true }
       function newSetObjectKey(tab, key, value)
               local numkey = tonumber(key)
               key = numkey or key
               rawset(tab, key, value)
       end
       json.decode("{'1':true, x:true}", { object = { setObjectKey =
newSetObjectKey } })
       --> { [1] = true, x = true }

require builtins update
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also changed is the major change to `require` as many of the default
packages as possible to better help custom embedding scenarios where
'default' tables such as `io` and `os` may require on-demand loading
via `require`.

Plans for next release
----------------------
For the next feature release, I plan on better fleshing out the enhanced
error handling and possibly adding in the more customizable output
system.  For previews of the features that might make it into the
next release, please see the "next" branch.  Note that this branch
is volatile and features may vanish rather than be reverted for cleanliness.

Updates since 1.1.1
===================

Thomas Harning Jr (4):
       all:
               pulls in all but base/package modules via require
(io,os,string,table,math)
       decoder:
               implements setObjectKey for LPeg < 0.9
               Moves 'setObjectKey' from root of `options` to `options.object`
       docs:
               adds reference for where bug reporting should go
Alexander Gladysh (1):
       decoder:
               configurable object key filter

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Thomas Harning Jr.