JSON chunked decoder throws an exception when closed without any added values

[jiahaog]

Would have expected the following to be a no-op:

import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:convert';

void main() {
  final controller = StreamController<Object>();
  final sink = json.decoder.startChunkedConversion(controller.sink);

  // Uncommenting these lines makes the error go away.
  // sink.add('{');
  // sink.add('}');

  sink.close();
}

But the following exception is thrown:

Web

Uncaught Error: FormatException: SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input

VM

Unhandled exception:
FormatException: Unexpected end of input (at character 1)

^

#0      _ChunkedJsonParser.fail (dart:convert-patch/convert_patch.dart:1404:5)
#1      _ChunkedJsonParser.close (dart:convert-patch/convert_patch.dart:522:7)
#2      _JsonStringDecoderSink.close (dart:convert-patch/convert_patch.dart:1503:13)
#3      _ConverterStreamEventSink.close (dart:convert/chunked_conversion.dart:81:18)
#4      _SinkTransformerStreamSubscription._handleDone (dart:async/stream_transformers.dart:132:24)
#5      _RootZone.runGuarded (dart:async/zone.dart:1534:10)
#6      _BufferingStreamSubscription._sendDone.sendDone (dart:async/stream_impl.dart:394:13)
#7      _BufferingStreamSubscription._sendDone (dart:async/stream_impl.dart:404:15)
#8      _BufferingStreamSubscription._close (dart:async/stream_impl.dart:291:7)
#9      _SyncStreamControllerDispatch._sendDone (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:741:19)
#10     _StreamController._closeUnchecked (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:596:7)
#11     _StreamController.close (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:589:5)
#12     _StreamTransformerWrapperSink.close (package:async/src/stream_sink_transformer/stream_transformer_wrapper.dart:62:17)
#13     DelegatingStreamSink.close (package:async/src/delegate/stream_sink.dart:47:27)
#14     _CloseGuaranteeSink.close (package:stream_channel/src/close_guarantee_channel.dart:81:22)
#15     Stream.pipe.<anonymous closure> (dart:async/stream.dart:698:70)
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https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/183540 should help to fix this, but I'm not sure if it's the right fix. Please advise if otherwise 🙂

SDK version: 11106861049846b9b9ddc524d3da9a975d91d66a

[lrhn]

The JSON decoder expects to see precisely one JSON value. Seeing zero is an error, so that's working as intended.
It would be nice-to-have if the decoder could also parse multiple (or zero) concatenated JSON values. Possibly only in the chunked conversion case, because then we can call the sink multiple times and not have to worry about returning more than one value. That's occasionally useful.
It's currently not possible

I'll keep this issue as an enhancement request for allowing that.