[stackoverflow] [progress Openedge Abl] Perl V5.18.1 Json Issue

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Recently I'd noticed that an old code with json_encode() and json_decode() for example:

json_encode({});


which worked fine in the past, now crashes with the error:

hash- or arrayref expected (not a simple scalar, use allow_nonref to allow this)
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The allow_nonref() really helps and this works fine:

$json = JSON->new;
$json->allow_nonref;
$json->encode({});


Does someone know another way to resolve the issue, so you don't have to rewrite code in every place where these functions are used?

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