C/lua JSON and file bug reports

SDK Bug Reports
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3 annoying things I found today.

  1. The Lua JSON decoder fails (reasonably) if you supply a path that doesn't exist. However, the error it gives in this circumstance is "You must supply a path or a file", which buries the actual error (e.g. that a directory in the path doesn't exist) making it very hard to diagnose.

  2. The C JSON decoder if passed NULL for a file gives an error about an unexpected character on line 1. It would be better if it reported that the input pointer is NULL.

  3. The C docs for playdate->file->open say that it is functionally equivalent to the lua playdate.file.open but this is not true - the lua version searches in the data folder first, and then the pdx, while the C version seraches only in the pdx or the data folder depending on the file mode input parameter.

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That’s not true, you can pass both flags at once to look in both locations: pd->file->open(path, kFileRead|kFileReadData);

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