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Discussion:
The JSON for is broken because the for attributes serializes to nothing. An empty library produces the following: The important bit which is clearly not valid JSON. It looks like the  serialization was removed in . I'm not sure what a solution is here. I'm guessing AST serialization is used elsewhere, where this field isn't needed. I'm not too familiar with , so I'm not sure if it has something equivalent to . cc <!-- TRIAGEBOTSTART --<!-- TRIAGEBOTASSIGNSTART --This issue has been assigned to via . <!-- TRIAGEBOTASSIGNDATASTARTTRIAGEBOTASSIGNDATAEND --<!-- TRIAGEBOTASSIGNEND --<!-- TRIAGEBOTEND --
Looks like the encoding/decoding change from needs to be reverted. Reverting should be ok because and don't do anything anyway (at least when inlined) during metadata encoding and decoding. The change is trivial, so marking this as E-easy, but if it's not done until the weekend I'll submit the PR myself.
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