Does the "index.json" file format occasionally change?

[mflint]

Forgive me, I think I'm going mad.

I'm getting the index.json file from inside https://tldr-pages.github.io/assets/tldr.zip, and my app occasionally fails to parse the file.

Last week, I was converting the JSON to the Swift type Dictionary<String, Array<Dictionary<String, AnyObject>>>, which implied that the file format was something like this:

{"commands":[{"name":"7za","platform":["common"]}]}

But then it stopped working. I needed to change it to Array<Dictionary<String, AnyObject>> because it was getting this JSON inside the zip:

[{"name":"7za","platform":["common"]}]

And this morning (sometime around 9am UTC) it changed back.

Is this an expected thing? Seems strange to me.

(Confirmation: I've been testing the app on several iOS simulators, and each one has a separate directory for storing documents. Sure enough, the ones I tested last night have an array as the root object. This morning I'm seeing a dictionary/map as the top level object, with a "commands" key.)

[mflint]

(Edited to correct a typo - I'm downloading the tldr zip from https://tldr-pages.github.io/assets/tldr.zip)

[igorshubovych]

@mflint
It was fixed already. Sorry for inconvenience. See #717.

[rubenvereecken]

I believe @igorshubovych just fixed this one. Might be worth having a test for.

[mflint]

@igorshubovych No apologies necessary!

So the correct format is {"commands":[{"name":"7za","platform":["common"]}]}.

[rubenvereecken]

Yeap.