Support for Comments

[JasonDictos]

Sorry @nlohmann, you're library is too good for me to not bring up comment support again. Standards are standards, but the real world is another story. I am also faced with a company which will refuse to chose a library just because it doesn't allow for comments in the json file.

Are there any workarounds?

[nlohmann]

Not for this library, sorry.

[Anton-V-K]

The request is 2+ years old - see #376 :)
Taking into account that JSON5 is hanging around for a year, it is enough to wait until it becomes widely spread, and ask for the library upgrade once again :)

[nlohmann]

This library implements JSON as defined in RFC 8259. We do not plan to break compatibility by adding comments.

[JasonDictos]

All that makes sense, but I guess I was hoping for something more basic. Perhaps just provide some way, or even an example, of how someone would customize some aspect of how the library parses. I wouldn't think you'd bother or need to make it some kind or primary feature that encroached on the standard parsing of json.

Either way I think this projectis awesome and I'd love to see it get accepted in the standard.

[gregmarr]

https://github.com/andrew-d/json-strip is a C++ library I just found for removing comments. It can even insert whitespace to keep line/column numbers the same. I'm sure there are others.

[jianbingfang]

such a pitty.

[nlohmann]

Comments are supported.

[gregmarr]

To expand on that, there is a parameter to the parse() and verify() functions that you can set to ignore comments. See #2212 as linked above.