JSONArray converting incorrect input string to array

[ssharan27]

Hi, I recently came across a strange issue in one of my java applications. I have an input string that looks like [1,2];[3,4]. This is clearly not a JSON array and should result in an exception. However when I do the following:

String inputString = "[1,2];[3,4]";
List<Object> resultArray = new JSONArray(inputString).toList();

This gives me a List object with value [1,2].

I checked this in the latest release as well by adding the following test to the JSONArrayTest class and it still failed:

    @Test(expected = JSONException.class)
    public void testInvalidJSONArray() {
        List<Object> x = new JSONArray("[1,2];[3,4]").toList();
        System.out.println(x);
    }

I am not sure but it seems like the array object creation is stopping at the first ] character even when there are characters left to read. Can you please take a look at this?