Re: making the backend's json parser work in frontend code

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:33 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>

>
> 0002 does some basic header cleanup to make it possible to include the
> existing header file jsonapi.h in frontend code. The state of the JSON
> headers today looks generally poor. There seems not to have been much
> attempt to get the prototypes for a given source file, say foo.c, into
> a header file with the same name, say foo.h. Also, dependencies
> between various header files seem to be have added somewhat freely.
> This patch does not come close to fixing all that, but I consider it a
> modest down payment on a cleanup that probably ought to be taken
> further.
>
> 0003 splits json.c into two files, json.c and jsonapi.c. All the
> lexing and parsing stuff (whose prototypes are in jsonapi.h) goes into
> jsonapi.c, while the stuff that pertains to the 'json' data type
> remains in json.c. This also seems like a good cleanup, because to me,
> at least, it's not a great idea to mix together code that is used by
> both the json and jsonb data types as well as other things in the
> system that want to generate or parse json together with things that
> are specific to the 'json' data type.
>

I'm probably responsible for a good deal of the mess, so let me say Thankyou.

I'll have a good look at these.

cheers

andrew

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