From: | Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
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To: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Cc: | Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
Subject: | Fix parsing of identifiers in jsonpath |
Date: | 2019-09-18 15:10:27 |
Message-ID: | 3603843f-b5fc-d8d9-c842-ccde2288b967@postgrespro.ru |
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Hi!
Unfortunately, jsonpath lexer, in contrast to jsonpath parser, was written by
Teodor and me without a proper attention to the stanard. JSON path lexics is
is borrowed from the external ECMAScript [1], and we did not study it carefully.
There were numerous deviations from the ECMAScript standard in our jsonpath
implementation that were mostly fixed in the attached patch:
1. Identifiers (unquoted JSON key names) should start from the one of (see [2]):
- Unicode symbol having Unicode property "ID_Start" (see [3])
- Unicode escape sequence '\uXXXX' or '\u{X...}'
- '$'
- '_'
And they should continue with the one of:
- Unicode symbol having Unicode property "ID_Continue" (see [3])
- Unicode escape sequence
- '$'
- ZWNJ
- ZWJ
2. '$' is also allowed inside the identifiers, so it is possible to write
something like '$.a$$b'.
3. Variable references '$var' are regular identifiers simply starting from the
'$' sign, and there is no syntax like '$"var"', because quotes are not
allowed in identifiers.
4. Even if the Unicode escape sequence '\uXXXX' is used, it cannot produce
special symbols or whitespace, because the identifiers are displayed without
quoting (i.e. '$\u{20}' is not possible to display as '$" "' or even more as
string '"$ "').
5. All codepoints in '\u{XXXXXX}' greater than 0x10FFFF should be forbidden.
6. 6 single-character escape sequences (\b \t \r \f \n \v) should only be
supported inside quoted strings.
I don't know if it is possible to check Unicode properties "ID_Start" and
"ID_Continue" in Postgres, and what ZWNJ/ZWJ is. Now, identifier's starting
character set is simply determined by the exclusion of all recognized special
characters.
The patch is not so simple, but I believe that it's not too late to fix v12.
[1] https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/10.0/index.html#sec-ecmascript-language-lexical-grammar
[2] https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/10.0/index.html#sec-names-and-keywords
[3] https://unicode.org/reports/tr31/
--
Nikita Glukhov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company
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0001-Fix-parsing-of-identifiers-in-jsonpath-v01.patch | text/x-patch | 14.5 KB |
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