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Bug #50166 json_encode returns wrong brackets for empty array
Submitted: 2009-11-13 13:59 UTC Modified: 2009-11-13 14:56 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:1.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: dumpbox at mail dot ru Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: JSON related
PHP Version: 5.2.11 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-11-13 13:59 UTC] dumpbox at mail dot ru 
Description:
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By default json object starts with "{" and ends with "}"
Error occurs when user attempt encode empty array.


Reproduce code:
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echo json_encode(array());

Expected result:
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{}

Actual result:
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[]

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 [2009-11-13 14:56 UTC] jani@php.net 
Yes, that would be an array in JSON. Please check http://www.json.org/ for the syntax. No bug here. (and yes, assoc arrays do end up as objects..)

Like this:

[jani@localhost ~]$ php -r 'var_dump(json_encode(array("foo" => "bar")));'
string(13) "{"foo":"bar"}"
[jani@localhost ~]$ php -r 'var_dump(json_encode(array("foo", "bar")));'
string(13) "["foo","bar"]"


No bug here.
 
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