Guarantee that JsonElement.toString()
produces JSON
#2659
Merged
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(Depends on #2654)
Purpose
Resolves #591
Resolves #1439
Description
As pointed out in #591 the result of
JsonElement.toString()
is currently unspecified. However, many users and also Gson's own unit tests assume that the output is valid JSON.Changing the
JsonElement.toString()
behavior would likely be backward incompatible. Therefore it seems reasonable to guarantee in the documentation thattoString()
produces JSON, which is already the case implementation-wise.Checklist
This is automatically checked by
mvn verify
, but can also be checked on its own usingmvn spotless:check
.Style violations can be fixed using
mvn spotless:apply
; this can be done in a separate commit to verify that it did not cause undesired changes.null
@since $next-version$
(
$next-version$
is a special placeholder which is automatically replaced during release)TestCase
)mvn clean verify javadoc:jar
passes without errors