2.4

README.md

@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ var_dump(Services_JSON::encode($obj)); // encode an object
 
 
 ## Changelog
+* 2.4 
+  * update requirements to php 7.4 
 * 2.3.2
   * Added flag to decode() DECODE_NO_QUOTE 
 * 2.3.1

composer.json

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=7.2.5"
+        "php": ">=7.4"
     },
     "suggest": {
         "ext-mbstring": "*"

src/Services_JSON.php

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-<?php
+<?php /** @noinspection UnknownInspectionInspection */
+
 /**
  * @noinspection TypeUnsafeArraySearchInspection
  * @noinspection PhpComposerExtensionStubsInspection
@@ -93,11 +94,11 @@ class Services_JSON
     public const DECODE_FIX_ROOT = 128;
     public const DECODE_NO_QUOTE = 256;
 
-    protected static $use = 0;
+    protected static int $use = 0;
     // private - cache the mbstring lookup results..
-    protected static $_mb_strlen = false;
-    protected static $_mb_substr = false;
-    protected static $_mb_convert_encoding = false;
+    protected static bool $_mb_strlen = false;
+    protected static bool $_mb_substr = false;
+    protected static bool $_mb_convert_encoding = false;
 
     /**
      * constructs a new JSON instance. We force this library as static
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ class Services_JSON
      * @return   string  UTF-8 character
      * @access   private
      */
-    protected static function utf162utf8($utf16): string
+    protected static function utf162utf8(string $utf16): string
     {
         if (self::$_mb_convert_encoding) {
             return mb_convert_encoding($utf16, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16');
@@ -162,7 +163,7 @@ class Services_JSON
      * @return   string  UTF-16 character
      * @access   private
      */
-    public static function utf82utf16($utf8): string
+    public static function utf82utf16(string $utf8): string
     {
         if (self::$_mb_convert_encoding) {
             return mb_convert_encoding($utf8, 'UTF-16', 'UTF-8');
@@ -204,7 +205,7 @@ class Services_JSON
     }
 
     /**
-     * encodes an arbitrary variable into JSON format without JSON Header - warning - may allow XSS!!!!)
+     * encodes an arbitrary variable into JSON format without JSON Header - warning - may allow XSS!!!!
      *
      * @param mixed $var         any number, boolean, string, array, or object to be encoded.
      *                           see argument 1 to Services_JSON() above for array-parsing behavior.
@@ -425,13 +426,13 @@ class Services_JSON
      * @return   string  JSON-formatted name-value pair, like '"name":value'
      * @access   private
      */
-    protected static function name_value($name, $value)
+    protected static function name_value(string $name, $value)
     {
         $encoded_value = self::_encode($value);
         if (self::isError($encoded_value)) {
             return $encoded_value;
         }
-        return self::_encode((string)$name) . ':' . $encoded_value;
+        return self::_encode($name) . ':' . $encoded_value;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -442,7 +443,7 @@ class Services_JSON
      * @return   string  string value stripped of comments and whitespace
      * @access   private
      */
-    protected static function reduce_string($str): string
+    protected static function reduce_string(string $str): string
     {
         $str = preg_replace([// eliminate single line comments in '// ...' form
             '#^\s*//(.+)$#m', // eliminate multi-line comments in '/* ... */' form, at start of string
@@ -480,10 +481,13 @@ class Services_JSON
      *                             in ASCII or UTF-8 format!<br>
      * @access       public
      */
-    public static function decode($str, int $use = 0)
+    public static function decode(string $str, int $use = 0)
     {
         if ($use & self::DECODE_FIX_ROOT) {
             $str = trim($str);
+            if($str==="") {
+                throw new RuntimeException("no value to decode");
+            }
             $firstChar = $str[0];
             if ($firstChar !== '{' && $firstChar !== '[') {
                 // fixing a malformed json-u, if the json-u doesn't start with { [ and ends with ] } then it wraps it
@@ -734,7 +738,7 @@ class Services_JSON
      * @param string $str
      * @return integer length
      */
-    protected static function strlen8($str): int
+    protected static function strlen8(string $str): int
     {
         if (self::$_mb_strlen) {
             return mb_strlen($str, "8bit");
@@ -746,10 +750,10 @@ class Services_JSON
      * Returns part of a string, interpreting $start and $length as number of bytes.
      * @param string  $string
      * @param integer $start  start
-     * @param integer $length length
+     * @param integer|bool $length length
      * @return string length
      */
-    protected static function substr8($string, $start, $length = false): string
+    protected static function substr8(string $string, int $start, $length = false): string
     {
         if ($length === false) {
             $length = self::strlen8($string) - $start;