Issue #28541: Improve test coverage for encoding detection in json library.

Original patch by Eric Appelt.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_json/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_json/test_unicode.py
index eda177a..2e8bba2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_json/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_json/test_unicode.py
@@ -65,6 +65,19 @@ class TestUnicode:
             self.assertEqual(self.loads(bom + encoded), data)
             self.assertEqual(self.loads(encoded), data)
         self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError, self.loads, b'["\x80"]')
+        # RFC-7159 and ECMA-404 extend JSON to allow documents that
+        # consist of only a string, which can present a special case
+        # not covered by the encoding detection patterns specified in
+        # RFC-4627 for utf-16-le (XX 00 XX 00).
+        self.assertEqual(self.loads('"\u2600"'.encode('utf-16-le')),
+                         '\u2600')
+        # Encoding detection for small (<4) bytes objects
+        # is implemented as a special case. RFC-7159 and ECMA-404
+        # allow single codepoint JSON documents which are only two
+        # bytes in utf-16 encodings w/o BOM.
+        self.assertEqual(self.loads(b'5\x00'), 5)
+        self.assertEqual(self.loads(b'\x007'), 7)
+        self.assertEqual(self.loads(b'57'), 57)
 
     def test_object_pairs_hook_with_unicode(self):
         s = '{"xkd":1, "kcw":2, "art":3, "hxm":4, "qrt":5, "pad":6, "hoy":7}'