json: Leave rejecting invalid escape sequences to parser

json: Leave rejecting invalid escape sequences to parser

Both lexer and parser reject invalid escape sequences in strings.  The
parser's check is useless.

The lexer ends the token right after the first non-well-formed byte.
This tends to lead to suboptimal error reporting.  For instance, input

    {"abc\@ijk": 1}

produces the tokens

    JSON_LCURLY   {
    JSON_ERROR    "abc\@
    JSON_KEYWORD  ijk
    JSON_ERROR   ": 1}\n

The parser then reports three errors

    Invalid JSON syntax
    JSON parse error, invalid keyword 'ijk'
    Invalid JSON syntax

before it recovers at the newline.

Drop the lexer's escape sequence checking, and make it accept the same
characters after backslash it accepts elsewhere in strings.  It now
produces

    JSON_LCURLY   {
    JSON_STRING   "abc\@ijk"
    JSON_COLON    :
    JSON_INTEGER  1
    JSON_RCURLY

and the parser reports just

    JSON parse error, invalid escape sequence in string

While there, fix parse_string()'s inaccurate function comment.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180823164025.12553-27-armbru@redhat.com>