It may not be JSON but it’s out there in the wild. A lot. Let’s say I’m scraping a website. I can: 1) complain to the owner that “it’s not JSON”. 2) write a

It may not be JSON but it’s out there in the wild. A lot. Let’s say I’m scraping a website. I can: 1) complain to the owner that “it’s not JSON”. 2) write a parser for a syntax that has no spec, (it’s not JSON, but it sure looks an awful lot like JSON with unquoted keys.) or 3) Set ALLOW_UNQUOTED_FIELD_NAMES to true in the Jackson library.