[Lyin-OTTF]

Description

Fixes #1092.

XML.mustEscape() is shared by two callers that need opposite answers for TAB (0x9), LF (0xA) and CR (0xD):

• XML.escape() uses it to decide what to escape when serializing.
• XMLTokener.unescapeEntity() uses it to reject invalid numeric character references when parsing.

#1070 added those three codepoints to the valid-range clause so that unescape("
") works again (#1059). A side effect was that the serialization path stopped escaping literal TAB/LF/CR: XML.toString() and JSONML.toString() now write them as literal characters. Conforming XML parsers normalize whitespace, so a value like "Lettuce\nTomato" loses its line breaks when the generated XML is read back by any standard parser — the attribute value comes back as "Lettuce Tomato" (or with collapsed whitespace), and XML.toJSONObject(XML.toString(o)) does not return the original string.

This PR splits the two concerns:

• XML.mustEscape() again returns true for every ISO control character (serialization). Literal TAB/LF/CR are written as 	, 
, 
, which was the behavior before Fix XML.unescape rejecting valid whitespace numeric character references #1070.
• New XML.isValidXmlCharacter() checks the XML 1.0 character range (#x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]).
• XMLTokener.unescapeEntity() validates numeric character references against isValidXmlCharacter() instead, so 	, 
 and 
 keep being accepted — the org.json.XML.unescape("
"); throws org.json.JSONException: Invalid numeric character reference: 
 #1059/Fix XML.unescape rejecting valid whitespace numeric character references #1070 parsing behavior is unchanged.

Tests

Three new tests in XMLTest:

• testEscapesLiteralWhitespaceControlCharsOnSerialization — XML.toString() writes 
/	/
 for literal TAB/LF/CR. Fails on master.
• testWhitespaceControlCharsRoundTripThroughXml — XML.toJSONObject(XML.toString(o)) returns the original value with the line break intact.
• testJSONMLToStringEscapesLiteralNewlines — same requirement for JSONML.toString().

mvn test
Tests run: 827, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 6

The existing #1059/#1070 regression tests (testValidWhitespaceNumericEntityUnescape, testValidWhitespaceNumericEntityToJSONObject) still pass.

[stleary]

@Lyin-OTTF No files changed?

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
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[Lyin-OTTF]

The first push came out empty. I built the tree with the Git Data API and reused the parent tree, so the changed files never made it into the commit - the tree was identical to master, which is what you saw.

Force-pushed the same commit with the actual changes. The diff is there now: 3 files, +80/-20.

src/main/java/org/json/XML.java           | 44 ++++++++-------
src/main/java/org/json/XMLTokener.java    |  6 +++-
src/test/java/org/json/junit/XMLTest.java | 50 +++++++++++++++

Tests: 827 run, 0 failures, 0 errors, 6 skipped. The three new tests in XMLTest fail without the main-source change and pass with it.

[stleary]

@Lyin-OTTF Looks like you have an undocumented behavior change. For example, the following test case fails with a parsing JSONException in the master branch, but executes successfully in your branch.

    @Test
    public void foo() {
        String xmlStr =
                "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n"+
                        "<name>Joe &#133; Tester</name>\n";
        JSONObject jsonObject = XML.toJSONObject(xmlStr);
        String expectedStr = "{\"name\":\"Joe \u0085 Tester\"}";
        JSONObject expectedJsonObject = new JSONObject(expectedStr);
        Util.compareActualVsExpectedJsonObjects(jsonObject,expectedJsonObject);
    }