bug#32793: 27.0.50; json-parse-string doesn't have the equivalent of json.el's json-array-type

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21.09.2018 15:56, Xu Chunyang wrote:

> We can parse JSON Array as Lisp List with json.el, e.g.,
>
> (let ((json-array-type 'list))
>    (json-read-from-string "[1,2,3]"))
> ;; => (1 2 3)
>
> but the new json-parse-string doesn't have the equivalent, thus porting
> existing code to using json-parse-string might be difficult.

I also stumbled on this problem when trying to port existing code to 
native JSON.

It's kind of surprising, considering lists are more common in Elisp, and 
there's no JSON data structure that would correspond to them (so I can't 
simply return a different format from the backing server process, I'll 
have to convert).