This will be useful for the upcoming test-erroneous-programs improvement
to --run-tests, so we can switch between the default error reporting
method (print to stderr) to a method internal to --run-tests, and back.
The idea is that when testing programs that are expected to compile (and
link), it'd be nice if errors continue going to stderr, while when
testing programs that must fail to compile (or link), the error has to
be captured so it can be compared to the error expected by the test.
Streaming means that outputs are produced as soon as possible. With the
`foreach` syntax one can write programs which reduce portions of the
streaming parse of a large input (reduce into proper JSON values, for
example), and discard the rest, processing incrementally.
This:
$ jq -c --stream .
should produce the same output as this:
$ jq -c '. as $dot | path(..) as $p | $dot | getpath($p) | [$p,.]'
The output of `jq --stream .` should be a sequence of`[[<path>],<leaf>]`
and `[[<path>]]` values. The latter indicate that the array/object at
that path ended.
Scalars and empty arrays and objects are leaf values for this purpose.
For example, a truncated input produces a path as soon as possible, then
later the error:
$ printf '[0,\n'|./jq -c --stream .
[[0],0]
parse error: Unfinished JSON term at EOF at line 3, column 0
$
If the caller is at EOF and has no more bytes to feed the parser, how is
the parser to be told about the EOF condition? A small fix to allow
zero-length buffers in jv_parser_set_buf() fixes this problem (it also
makes it easier to deal with async I/O: feed the parser whatever is
available, including nothing).
The search path listed in an import directive can now be an array. The
top-level search path is appended. Null and empty strings in the path
terminate any search. The "." in "." and "./*" is replaced with the
directory containing the file doing the import (for command-line
programs this is the current directory, though that may be a bad idea).
No version numbers or anything of the sort are gratuitously added to the
search paths.
All this makes external package managers possible by allowing
dependencies to be installed local to dependents.
Nicolas Williams