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Decoder.{{Type}}Null does not behave as documented when encountering incorrect typed json elements.
This was initially detected with Decoder.StringNull
, but it appears to affect all Decoder.{{Type}}Null
methods.
As per the StringNull method documentation, when the next value is not a string or null, the method should return an InvalidUnmarshalError
, however the method returns no such error.
Version in use: github.com/francoispqt/gojay v1.2.13
Method docs:
// StringNull decodes the JSON value within an object or an array to a **string.
// If next key is not a JSON string nor null, InvalidUnmarshalError will be returned.
// If a `null` is encountered, gojay does not change the value of the pointer.
Demonstration:
package main
import (
"bytes"
"fmt"
"github.com/francoispqt/gojay"
)
func main() {
var tmp *string
dec := gojay.NewDecoder(bytes.NewBufferString("13245"))
// This should _not_ return nil. It should return an InvalidUnmarshalError.
fmt.Println(dec.StringNull(&tmp))
}
Which results with:
<nil>
It appears that the Decoder
method decodeStringNull
is calling skipData
after encountering an invalid character (and assigning the correct error to dec.err
), which just skips over the bad data and then returns nil, if skipData
returns nil, and completely ignores the initial error.
Starting from https://github.com/francoispqt/gojay/blob/master/decode_string.go#L82-L88
default:
dec.err = dec.makeInvalidUnmarshalErr(v)
err := dec.skipData()
if err != nil {
return err
}
return nil