Integers marked as valid JSON

[hdezela]

LIke the title says, if you pass an integer $parser->lint(INT);, it validates as correct.

[stof]

Well, the JsonParser documents its input as being a string (it would be typehinted if PHP 7 was required). This means that passing an int is actually linting a string containing this int (which is exactly what would happen with scalar type hints btw), and this is valid JSON (try to run json_encode(150))

[hdezela]

I guess I'm just used to JSON beginning with [ or {

Just checked the spec and you're right...killing the issue.

[stof]

Well, it is true that we often represent more complex data in JSON rather than scalars, but this does not make them invalid 😄