[Cosmo-dev] Bug 11081

[Aparna Kadakia]

Given how rare this is, I am fine waiting for a well tested fix to be  
checked into 0.9.

On Oct 17, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Travis Vachon wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> Several people woke up this morning to a broken office calendar on  
> Hub. We've traced the problem to bug 11081. Fortunately, we were  
> able to fix Hub for now by deleting a few nasty characters, so  
> we're up and running again.
>
> There was a consensus on IRC that this is a pretty nasty bug and  
> should be fixed soon. Appropriate fixes are discussed in the bug,  
> but the short story is that we could fix this on the server side or  
> the client side.
>
> The server side fix would require patching our JSON library. This  
> wouldn't be hard, but I'd need a little assistance from Bear, as  
> I've never patched and deployed one of our Java dependencies before.
>
> The client side fix would require patching Dojo. Probably the best  
> way to do this would be to add a build time patch that would make  
> the necessary tweak.
>
> I'm currently leaning toward the server side fix since it appears  
> to be more elegant (our JSON library already does some escaping, so  
> this would just be a couple additional cases in a switch statement)  
> but I'd like to hear input from other folks as well.
>
> I'm also going to email the author of the JSON spec, Douglas  
> Crockford, to get his take. Conventional wisdom has it that all  
> valid JSON is valid Ecmascript, and this particular bug appears to  
> be an exception to that rule, so I'd like to follow up to make sure  
> we're not missing anything.
>
> Finally, we need some input from the bug council as to when this  
> fix should land. If we want to go for 0.8 we'll need to roll  
> another rc. I could probably have this fix ready by the end of  
> today. Given how rare these characters appear to be in the wild, I  
> don't think it would be a disaster to wait for 0.9 to roll this out.
>
>
> Comments/questions?
>
> -Travis
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