Dev Diary 03/10/2018

• Unicode is fun! A format that must be utf-8 encoded but handles escape sequences as ascii encodings of utf-16 code units is fun! A format that handles escape sequences for code points larger than U+FFFF by doing two four-byte escapes and treating them as a utf-16 surrogate pair is fun! Unicode is Fun! Json is a simple format!
• implemented the json parser (more precisely, implemented the Deserializer trait): https://github.com/ssbrs/legacy-msg/blob/master/src/json/de.rs
• implemented Deserialize for the Value and ValueOrdered type: https://github.com/ssbrs/legacy-msg/blob/master/src/json/value.rs

I haven't run a single line of this code, but in theory we can now encode and decode arbitrary json legacy data values.

Next steps:

• get enough sleep
• run all the lines of code
• ideally via afl
• fix all the errors
• create a setup to verify identical behavior of nodejs and rust implementation
• implement hash computation and length computation
• extend the js compatibility verification for hashes and length
• extract a test data set
• prettify rust code, create readable documentation