Resources field parsing just drops incorrect format

[Altai-man]

I am not sure how marshaling works, so cannot provide a fix, but provide we have such a file:

{
  "resources" : {
    "data" : [
      "type-graph.txt"
    ]
  }
}

in META6.json, and then:

> META6.new(file => 'META6.json'.IO).resources
[(Str)]
> 

Expected result:

• To fail saying that resources field is incorrect.

Real result:

• The incorrect value is ignored.

[jonathanstowe]

Actually that's somewhat surprising as I would have expected it to blow up parsing as resources is defined as a positional attribute. But yes it does just silently ignore it. I think that there would need to be a change to JSON::Unmarshal to support doing anything like this.

[Altai-man]

Actually that's somewhat surprising as I would have expected it to blow up parsing as resources is defined as a positional attribute

It was the same for me when I started to look at the code to write a patch. Then my time for helping Perl 6 today ended and I gave up opening the ticket. :)