docs: clarify JSON5 Infinity and NaN handling in no-unsafe-values

[electrohyun]

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What is the purpose of this pull request?

Fix no-unsafe-values not reporting JSON5 Infinity values.

What changes did you make? (Give an overview)

Added an Infinity visitor and regression tests for Infinity and -Infinity.

Related Issues

fixes #277

Is there anything you'd like reviewers to focus on?

+Infinity is intentionally omitted to match the existing 2e308/-2e308 coverage (which does not include +2e308).

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• Documentation

  • Clarified that explicit JSON5 Infinity and NaN values are accepted by the no-unsafe-values rule.
  • Documented that numeric literals exceeding JavaScript’s number range remain subject to unsafe-value checks, even when they evaluate to Infinity.

• Tests

  • Added coverage confirming valid handling of signed and unsigned Infinity and NaN JSON5 literals.
  • Removed outdated expectations that reported explicit Infinity values as unsafe.

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The PR updates no-unsafe-values tests and documentation. Explicit JSON5 Infinity and NaN values are valid. Overflowing numeric literals remain distinct.

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JSON5 special-value validation

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JSON5 special-value validation tests/rules/no-unsafe-values.test.js, docs/rules/no-unsafe-values.md	Tests add valid cases for Infinity, +Infinity, -Infinity, NaN, +NaN, and -NaN. Documentation distinguishes these values from numeric literals such as 1e400 that exceed JavaScript’s number range.

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[electrohyun]

Since this change reports more problems, I changed the prefix from fix to feat.

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Add a regression case for +Infinity.

JSON5 permits +Infinity, but these tests cover only Infinity and -Infinity. Add a case that checks data.value and the complete source range, or document why this form is excluded.

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In `@tests/rules/no-unsafe-values.test.js` around lines 110 - 111, Add a
regression test alongside the existing Infinity cases in the no-unsafe-values
test suite for the JSON5 source "+Infinity", asserting both data.value and the
complete source range; only omit it if the implementation explicitly documents
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In `@tests/rules/no-unsafe-values.test.js`:
- Around line 110-111: Add a regression test alongside the existing Infinity
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[lumirlumir]

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Thanks for the PR, but I am not sure whether reporting Infinity is the right behavior for this rule.

Infinity and NaN are valid values according to the JSON5 specification:

https://spec.json5.org/#summary-of-features

The above values are parsed as intended by the json5 parser:

https://github.com/json5/json5/blob/main/test/parse.js#L170-L184

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After this change, the rule message would be The number 'Infinity' will evaluate to Infinity., but reporting an error for using an Infinity value that the specification explicitly allows doesn't seem to make sense to me.

For example, 1e400 overflows to Infinity when parsed as a JavaScript Number, whereas an explicit JSON5 Infinity literal directly represents infinity. I think these two cases should be considered separately.

A standard JSON parser already throws an error when it encounters Infinity, so this additional check only applies to JSON5.

JSON.parse("Infinity"); // SyntaxError
JSON.parse(Infinity); // SyntaxError
JSON.parse("1e400"); // Infinity

So, I think adding test cases for Infinity and its variants to valid would make more sense, to ensure that not reporting these values in JSON5 mode is intentional.

[electrohyun]

Thank you for the review, @lumirlumir!

As you pointed out, an explicit JSON5 Infinity should be considered separately from a numeric literal that evaluates to Infinity due to overflow. I also agree that the current unsafeNumber message would not be appropriate in this case.

For this PR, I’ll remove the newly added reporting logic and instead add Infinity, +Infinity, and -Infinity as valid regression test cases.

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Separately, I have one question to make sure I understand the intended scope of the rule.

Does interchange here refer only to environments that support the same JSON format, such as JSON5?

When I opened the issue, I interpreted this as a broader interchange concern because an explicit Infinity is valid in JSON5 but cannot be represented in standard JSON while preserving the same meaning.

If the rule is designed to evaluate safety within each dialect, I think it may be helpful to clarify in the documentation the distinction between an explicit Infinity and a numeric literal that evaluates to Infinity due to overflow.

Would it be helpful to discuss this in a separate issue?

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Thank you again for pointing out the distinction I missed. I’ll update the PR by September 7.

[DMartens]

From the rule documentation:

JSON is widely used for data interchange between systems, but certain values can cause interoperability issues when transferred between different parsers and environments

I interpreted this as any value which could cause interoperability issues.
For example C does not have a standard concept of Infinity.
The safe way would be to add an option for this.

[electrohyun]

Thanks for the review, @DMartens!

I think it would be better to clarify the intended behavior before updating the implementation. I’ll hold off on the changes for now and wait for further thoughts.

[lumirlumir]

I interpreted this as any value which could cause interoperability issues.
For example C does not have a standard concept of Infinity.
The safe way would be to add an option for this.

After reviewing the current C libraries and Rust implementation, I found that all of them support positive and negative Infinity and NaN.

Rust:

let positive = f64::INFINITY;
let negative = f64::NEG_INFINITY;
let nan = f64::NAN;

assert!(positive.is_infinite());
assert!(nan.is_nan());

C99:

#include <math.h>

int main(void) {
    float positive = INFINITY;
    float negative = -INFINITY;

    int result = isinf(positive);
    int negative_result = isinf(negative);

    return 0;
}

Also, the C JSON library yyjson supports positive and negative Infinity and NaN.

https://github.com/ibireme/yyjson/blob/master/doc/API.md#yyjson_read_json5

So, I think interoperability issues with JSON5 data containing Infinity or NaN only arise when people use an inappropriate parser to exchange the data.

(As far as I know, Rust’s f64 and C’s double (on IEEE 754 implementations) can also represent infinity, just like JavaScript’s Number: https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-data-types-and-values.html#sec-ecmascript-language-types-number-type)

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If the rule is designed to evaluate safety within each dialect, I think it may be helpful to clarify in the documentation the distinction between an explicit Infinity and a numeric literal that evaluates to Infinity due to overflow.

So, I think it would be helpful to mention this rule’s limitations in the documentation and tests, making it clear that explicitly reporting Infinity and NaN is outside the scope of this rule and that an appropriate JSON5 parser will handle these values correctly, even when implemented in another language such as C or Rust.

[nzakas]

I don't think we should add Infinity to this rule. As already noted, the purpose of the rule is to flag values that may not be interpreted correctly in different implementations. Infinity is a formal part of the JSON5 specification and therefore isn't unsafe.

[electrohyun]

Based on the comments, I removed the Infinity visitor and added Infinity, +Infinity, -Infinity, NaN, +NaN, and -NaN as valid test cases.

I also added a short explanation to the rule documentation to distinguish explicit JSON5 Infinity and NaN values from numeric literals such as 1e400 that evaluate to Infinity.

This is not meant to be the final version. I put it together to provide something concrete to review, and I’d appreciate any feedback, particularly on the documentation wording and PR title.

[lumirlumir]

Suggested change

	For JSON5, this rule does not report explicit `Infinity` and `NaN` values because the specification defines how they are interpreted. These values differ from numeric literals such as `1e400`, which evaluate to `Infinity` because they exceed JavaScript's number range.
	NOTE: For JSON5, this rule does not report explicit [`Infinity` and `NaN`](https://spec.json5.org/#summary-of-features-numbers) values because the specification defines how they are interpreted. These values differ from numeric literals such as `1e400`, which evaluate to `Infinity` because they exceed JavaScript's number range.

Just a small suggestion to make the documentation clearer, since we’re discussing the case that is intentionally not reported and linking to the specification. Otherwise, LGTM.

[lumirlumir]

LGTM, thanks!

I’m leaving it open so others can verify the change as well.