Currently, it's possible to disable the json extension with
`./configure --disable-json` (for historical reasons that no longer apply).
However, JSON is widely used in many use cases - web sites, logging output,
and as a data format that can be used to share data with many applications
and programming languages,
so I'd personally find it useful if it was always enabled.
Examples of where this would be useful:
- For internal classes to be able to implement `JsonSerializable`
which currently requires a hard dependency on the JSON extension.
- For PHP users to publish single-file scripts that use json_encode and
json_decode and don't require polyfills or less readable var_export output.
(polyfills are less efficient and may have issues with recursive data
structures)
- So that php-src's own modules, tools and test cases can start using JSON
if it's a good choice for encoding a value. (same for PECLs)
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jsond mentions that in PHP 5,
> The current Json Parser in the json extension does not have a free license
> which is a problem for many Linux distros.
> This has been referenced at Bug #63520.
> That results in not packaging json extension in the many Linux distributions.
Starting in php 7.0 with the switch to jsond,
It looks like licensing is no longer an issue.
Changes:
- Remove all flags related to JSON such as `configure --disable-json`
- Require that JSON be compiled statically instead of as a shared library
Examples of uses of JSON in various distros
(backwards incompatible changes such as changing packaging are typically
reserved for major versions, and 8.0 is a major version)
- JSON is required by `php-cli` or `php` in ubuntu:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/php/
- The php-json package has to be installed separately
from the PHP binary in Fedora repos.
Closes GH-5495
Normalization include:
- Use dnl for everything that can be ommitted when configure is built in
favor of the shell comment character # which is visible in the output.
- Line length normalized to 80 columns
- Dots for most of the one line sentences
- Macro definitions include similar pattern header comments now
Autoconf 2.59d (released in 2006) [1] started promoting several macros
as not relevant for newer systems anymore, including the `AC_HEADER_STDC`.
This macro checks if given system has C89 compliant header files such
as `<string.h>`, `<stdlib.h>`, `<stdarg.h>`, `<float.h>`,... and defines
the `STDC_HEADERS` symbol [2]. Case is that current systems should be
well supported with at least C89 standard headers [3].
Given headers are still additionally checked with the `AC_PROG_CC`
macro, yet not needed anyway.
Additionally, the HAVE_MEMCPY check has been removed. The memcpy
function is standardized by C89 and later.
Refs:
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/NEWS
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/autoconf.html
[3] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#4.1.2
The $Id$ keywords were used in Subversion where they can be substituted
with filename, last revision number change, last changed date, and last
user who changed it.
In Git this functionality is different and can be done with Git attribute
ident. These need to be defined manually for each file in the
.gitattributes file and are afterwards replaced with 40-character
hexadecimal blob object name which is based only on the particular file
contents.
This patch simplifies handling of $Id$ keywords by removing them since
they are not used anymore.
Json use an utf8 parser from a third party library, switch to
our implementation of php_next_utf8_char.
This also helps on solving #63520. All the unit tests succeed.
Our implementation also seems a little faster.
json.dsp need to be regenerated.
