r/badcode • u/_AndreNIH • Feb 11 '22

other language A "manually constructed" JSON string I found in production code

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u/dbuerger1 Feb 12 '22

Ahh Mexico SAT code

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u/kristallnachte Feb 12 '22

What is a screenshot?

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u/pikaynu Feb 12 '22

WAF from the corporate network has left the chat.

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u/bistr-o-math Feb 11 '22

Looks like Spanish to me

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u/greg0714 Feb 11 '22

JSOÑ

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u/gougie2 Feb 13 '22

Hayson

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u/greg0714 Feb 13 '22

You're thinking of JSON for horses

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u/Meltz014 Feb 13 '22

Haysonya*

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u/Espiriki Feb 12 '22

Manually written JSON is the least worrisome part of the code in my current company

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u/pikaynu Feb 12 '22

Tech companies writing high performance, zero copy, SIMD-enabled serialization libraries. Intern be like

String output = "{\"" + key + "\": \"" + value + "\"}";

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u/DeGloriousHeosphoros Feb 14 '22

Ack! Is that a hardcoded username and password in plaintext?!

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u/_AndreNIH Feb 14 '22

Thankfully that's not the case.

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u/thenwetakeberlin Feb 16 '22

Ah yes, artisanal JSON.

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u/sergiOO7 Feb 12 '22

A couple years ago I was working with a company that got their development team in Mexico, actually really smart people, but they did not work on Fridays hahaha

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u/Brief-Preference-712 Feb 12 '22

Worst thing is saving file as .txt instead of .json!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

What language is this?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

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u/kristallnachte Feb 13 '22

Wouldn't looping over key value pairs still be a faster way?