Re: A brief look at deprecating our JSON extensions over RFC 8259

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 09:33, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Misunderstanding: our JSON interpolation feature is *not* string
>> interpolation!  It interpolates *objects* into the QObject built by the
>> parser.
>
> Given that it's basically undocumented except in a scattered
> handful of comments inside the qjson parser implementation, it's
> not too surprising that people misunderstand it :-)

Yes, that's fair.

I added a fair amount of commentary, but it's heavily geared towards
maintainers, not users.

>                                                     (One surprising
> feature: the parser takes ownership of the object that you pass it
> via the '%p' interpolation, and will qobject_unref() it.)

Yes, %p takes over the reference.