[fpc-pascal] JSON SAX-based reader

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Stefan V. Pantazi wrote:

> Thank you for this, Michael. I think it is wonderful work.
>
> I've done some old tests of the new implementation and it looks very 
> good. The only failed tests were related to date and time 
> representation. This appears to be fixed in the new version. Most 
> importantly, I see no memory leaks when parsing fails due to malformed 
> JSON, and that is great!
>
> The only fixes I had to do to my own software to accommodate the new 
> implementation, were:
>
> 1) comment out the "Strict" property of the TJSONParser (it appears it 
> no longer exists); I used to set it to false, to allow for more 
> flexibility in JSON syntax.

It has been superseded by the more flexible 'Options' property since quite some time;
It was marked 'deprecated' in 3.0, and has now been removed in trunk.

>
> 2) add the missing procedure SetKey(obj:TJSONObject); to TJSONConfig 
> since it was removed from the new version of jsonconf.pp; anyway, in 
> this particular case, it may be me that has to rethink and simplify my 
> use of the json config component that does not need SetKey.

The JSONConfig has not been changed recently, I suspect this change was
already in 3.0.

>
> Hope this helps,

It does, and I hope the above helps you in reviving your code :)

Michael.