Re: [gpsd-dev] Tests: About adding a JSON validator

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Hi,


> While working on having the AIS code better tested, I wrote a simple python
> script that try to parse the JSON dump of the AIVDM mesages, and I discovered
> two syntax errors in it (2 non quoted string values).

what did you use to check for syntax errors? Having something like jsonlint from
python-demjson to validate generated json automatically would be a good thing to
have in the regression tests.

> 
> I then did the same with all the JSON files in test/ but i didn't discover 
> more
> problems.
> 
> Do you thinks, it would be good to have this kind of thing added to "scons 
> check"?

Definitely.

Cheers,

Bernd


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