JSON not properly supported by Joomla, falls back to INI

[JesperHansen]

Joomla does not support JSON properly.

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$this->lessons = "[2,14,35,25,24]"; // fetched from database normally
print_r($this->lessons);
// Output: [2,14,35,25,24]
$lessons = new JRegistry;
$lessons->loadJSON($this->lessons);
$this->lessons = $lessons;

print_r($this->lessons);
// Output: JRegistry Object ( [data:protected] => stdClass Object ( ) ) 
echo $this->lessons;
// Output: {}

A php.net example of how it should work: @ http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php

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$a = array('<foo>',"'bar'",'"baz"','&blong&', "\xc3\xa9");
echo "Normal: ",  json_encode($a), "\n";
// Output: Normal: ["<foo>","'bar'","\"baz\"","&blong&","\u00e9"]

This is probably caused by this: http://hg.joomla.org/joomla-platform/sr ... .php#cl-46
It assumes JSON is only objects {}.

Although we have access to functions like loadArray then this function does not work like json_decode/encode.
A echo output of loadArray: {"0":"[2,14,35,25,24]"}

[JesperHansen]

Could this be moved to 2.5 bug reporting? Thanks