Increase robustness of geojson parsing by allowing extra properties and null values #681
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Closes issues described on forum starting here. The existing code naively assumed that the geojson top level object would have just a
type
followed byfeatures
in that order and with no other properties.What has been done to verify that this works as intended?
Added tests based on forum reports. Note that the test case provided includes another nested property with name
type
which was a really good inclusion. One thing to think about in review is whether there are other tricky structures like that which we should test for.Why is this the best possible solution? Were any other approaches considered?
I briefly considered using an
ObjectMapper
instead of the parser. But I do think it's better to be able to stream the parsing. I think this is much more robust but it's possible there are still cases I haven't thought of.How does this change affect users? Describe intentional changes to behavior and behavior that could have accidentally been affected by code changes. In other words, what are the regression risks?
This does change the geojson parsing strategy quite a bit so there's risk. Our test coverage is good, though, so I don't think it's high.
Do we need any specific form for testing your changes? If so, please attach one.
See tests.
Does this change require updates to documentation? If so, please file an issue here and include the link below.
No.