It's been a while since I blogged about Json-lib so here goes what has happened since last time. One of the most sought features for 2.2.1 (besides generics) was handling XML -> JSON conversion as expected when encountering a "top level" object that happened to have 1 single child. Problem is that that XML is also a valid top level array, so an artificial way to differentiate both cases had to be implemented, thanks to a simple flag the job was done, or was it? turns out the feature was not completely done, but I'm happy to say that now it finally is (thanks to some users pointing out a missing corner case).

Json-lib supports both Groovy and JRuby for quite a while, perhaps you saw in the news that JRuby 1.1 was released a couple of weeks ago, well Groovy 1.5.5 was released today, that prompt me to download both versions and upgrade Json-lib's dependencies along the way. Speaking of Groovy, previously to version 2.2.1 Json-lib would automatically enhance classes to use the as keyword to perform type conversions, but as Kohsuke noted, it broke Hudson in unexpected ways (MetaClass magic gone bad) so from that release onward it no longer enhances classes unless you tell it so, which by the way is quite easy

GJson.enhanceClasses() def json = "{name:'Duke'}" as JSON

There have been other issues that have been solved as well but I think these are the more relevant to mention for now, as I'm still looking for a way to add generics to the library.