unable to set double (fixed upstream)

[ajf]

The version of json-glib shipped with Ubuntu 10.10 has a bug in JsonGenerator which means doubles are not serialized correctly. Users of my application on Ubuntu 10.10 find that the JSON-RPC server rejects the whole request if it contains a double.

It's a very simple fix from over a year ago (March 18th 2010), 0.10.4 was released on the 19th so should resolve the issue.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/json-glib/commit/?id=f622ee8d8ba54ddea6fbb7311a905ffab7842e8d

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

hum, I'm having issues building on my 10.10 box right now so setting back in the queue, it seems fine to pick up if someone want to upload, I will do it later once I fix my install if nobody does it

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I uploaded this to maverick-proposed now

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

This bug report needs appropriate SRU justification per the instructions in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Please add that. I will leave it in the -proposed upload queue until the necessary info is added to the bug description. Thank you!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted json-glib into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Do you have a python snippet or other simple example code that we can use to verify the fix?

[ajf (ajf)]

Hi!

Thanks for looking into this. I've just tested the package from maverick-proposed and it fixes the issue in the application I was linking to it.

The library is C. I've put together a simple test (attached) which places a single double value into a JSON array, serializes it into a string, then deserializes that string and checks the parsed value.

With the -dev package installed, you should be able to compile it like so:

gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 json-glib-1.0) -o lp756426-test-double lp756426-test-double.c

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package json-glib - 0.10.2-2ubuntu2.1

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json-glib (0.10.2-2ubuntu2.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/01_use_g_format_for_g_ascii_formatd.patch:
    - Add upstream patch to fix serialization of doubles (LP: #756426)
 -- Rodrigo Moya <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:10:57 +0200