The docs aren't entirely clear on the order of calls for upgrades so
this is mostly just in case old_priv ever happens to not be what load
returned in priv.
By default Jiffy is quite strict in what it encodes. By default it will
not allow invalid UTF-8 to be produced. This can cause issues when
attempting to encode JSON that was decoded by other libraries as UTF-8
semantics are not uniformly enforced.
This patch adds an option 'force_utf8' to the encoder. If encoding hits
an error for an invalid string it will forcefully mutate the object to
contain only valid UTF-8 and return the resulting encoded JSON.
For the most part this means it will strip any garbage data from
binaries replacing it replacement codepoint U+FFFD. Although, it will
also try and the common error of encoding surrogate pairs as three-byte
sequences and reencode them into UTF-8 properly.
The encoder can now return \u escaped unicode data instead of leaving
it as UTF-8 byte sequences. This done like so:
Eshell V5.8.3 (abort with ^G)
1> jiffy:encode(<<240, 144, 129, 128>>, [uescape]).
<<"\"\\uD800\\uDC40\"">>
Any number that can't be decoded in C is now passed back
to Erlang for decoding.
Large numbers passed to the encoder will make it through
and be processed in Erlang after the main encoding
process.
* Refs became atoms to make sure they can live across calls
to the NIF functions.
* Initialized curr in decode so that I'm no longer pushing
random values into the Erlang VM.