Specifically, functions that are run in the context of the test runner
are put in module `test/testutil.lua` while the functions that are run
in the context of the test session are put in
`test/functional/testnvim.lua`.
Closes https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/27004.
Problem:
Empty string is a valid JSON key, but json_decode() treats an object
with empty key as ":help msgpack-special-dict". #20757
:echo json_decode('{"": "1"}')
{'_TYPE': [], '_VAL': [['', '1']]}
Note: vim returns `{'': '1'}`.
Solution:
Allow empty string as an object key.
Note that we still (currently) disallow empty keys in object_to_vim() (since 7c01d5ff92):
f64e4b43e1/src/nvim/api/private/converter.c (L333-L334)Fix#20757
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Problem:
- `vim.json` exposes various global options which:
- affect all Nvim Lua plugins (especially the LSP client)
- are undocumented and untested
- can cause confusing problems such as: cc76ae3abe
- `vim.json` exposes redundant mechanisms:
- `vim.json.null` is redundant with `vim.NIL`.
- `array_mt` is redundant because Nvim uses a metatable
(`vim.empty_dict()`) for empty dict instead, which `vim.json` is
configured to use by default (see `as_empty_dict`).
Example:
```
:lua vim.print(vim.json.decode('{"bar":[],"foo":{}}'))
--> { bar = {}, foo = vim.empty_dict() }
```
Thus we don't need to also decorate empty arrays with `array_mt`.
Solution:
Remove the functions from the public vim.json interface.
Comment-out the implementation code to minimize drift from upstream.
TODO:
- Expose the options as arguments to `vim.json.new()`
