Bug 2017285

Summary:	jq try/catch stops iteration over items
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	WRH <wil.rh>
Component:	jq	Assignee:	Haïkel Guémar <karlthered>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	34	CC:	bhills, davide, david, fpercoco, karlthered, lhh, thalman
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Fixed In Version:	jq-1.6-13.fc37	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2022-03-11 18:56:06 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description WRH 2021-10-26 08:30:34 UTC

Description of problem:

An error raised and caught during an iteration appears to interrupt the iteration. 
In the example below the intent is to convert all "strings" into "numbers" when they can be and to ignore all other values.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
jq-1.6-10.fc34.x86_64

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. `jq '.[]| tonumber? ' <<< '["1", "2", "a", "3"]'`

Actual results:
```
1
2
```


Expected results:

```
1
2
3
```


Additional info:
Problem seems to have appeared with 1.6-10

Comment 1 Tomas Halman 2022-01-11 18:07:53 UTC

This issue has been introduced in commit https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/cf4b48c7ba30cb30e116b523cff036ea481459f

It is not fixed upstream yet.

Comment 2 Tomas Halman 2022-01-20 10:23:42 UTC

In fact `jq` does not stop iterrating, it just stops converting and printing strings

    jq '.[]| tonumber? ' <<< '["1", "a", "2", 3]'

will print 1 and 3 because 3 is not converted from string.

Here is the PR to discuss and find the fix: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/pull/2400

Tom

Comment 3 Tomas Halman 2022-02-02 12:15:31 UTC

The issue can be also avoided by providing `--disable-decnum` configure option

HTH
T.

Comment 4 Davide Cavalca 2022-03-08 20:57:00 UTC

I've put up https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/jq/pull-request/5 to address this.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2022-03-11 18:53:02 UTC

FEDORA-2022-4e51f14539 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-4e51f14539

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2022-03-11 18:56:06 UTC

FEDORA-2022-4e51f14539 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.