Support for missing values (non-compliant JSON)

[cemo]

This is not my top priority but might be useful for someone else too. As we discussed at FasterXML/jackson-databind#345, I am opening this issue for further references.

      ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
      objectMapper.configure(JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_UNQUOTED_FIELD_NAMES, true);
      objectMapper.configure(JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_SINGLE_QUOTES, true);
      objectMapper.enable(DeserializationFeature.ACCEPT_EMPTY_STRING_AS_NULL_OBJECT);
      String str = "{a:[1,2,3]}";
      Map x = objectMapper.reader(Map.class).readValue(str);
      System.out.println(((ArrayList)x.get("a")).get(0));
      str = "{a:[1,null,3]}";
      x = objectMapper.reader(Map.class).readValue(str);
      System.out.println(((ArrayList)x.get("a")).get(0));
      str = "{a:[1,,3]}";
      x = objectMapper.reader(Map.class).readValue(str);
      System.out.println(((ArrayList)x.get("a")).get(0));

[cowtowncoder]

Thanks to @LokeshN this is now implemented, will be in 2.8.0.

[cowtowncoder]

Looks like implementation lead to #616 (non-closing root level stream, serving VALUE_NULLs.).