miguno/elephant-bird — comment on commit 86bfa834d06af954066d716cb060027a163ec827
File: src/java/com/twitter/elephantbird/pig/load/JsonLoader.java line 104
By rangadi:

> TL;DR: My suggestion is as follows. Just let me know what you prefer.

this sounds good. Except that it is indistinguishable from legal empty jason "{}".
Treating as an error seems right. At least according http://jsonlint.com/ , "null" is an error.

btw, thanks for thorough investigation!