Living with a new Parser for a year
Hi folks! Today’s post is a retrospective. I would like to gather some thoughts about living with the new parser that I wrote for JsonPath. After a little over a year, some interesting problems surfaced that I thought I’d share for people who also would like to endeavor on this path. Let’s begin. Previously About, two years ago, I took over managing / fixing / improving this ruby gem: Json Parser. It’s a json parser in ruby. Amongst other problems, it used eval in the background to evaluate expressions. It was a security risk to use this gem to its full extent. Something had to be done about that. ...