JuliusBrussee/caveman · error

cachebench: unexpected JSON delimiter

Error message

cachebench: unexpected JSON delimiter

What it means

Error "cachebench: unexpected JSON delimiter" thrown in JuliusBrussee/caveman.

Source

Thrown at cacheengine/cachebench/strictjson.go:86

			return errors.New("cachebench: invalid object close")
		}
		return nil
	case '[':
		if root {
			return errors.New("cachebench: JSON root must be object")
		}
		for decoder.More() {
			if err := validateUniqueJSONValue(decoder, false, depth+1); err != nil {
				return err
			}
		}
		closing, err := decoder.Token()
		if err != nil || closing != json.Delim(']') {
			return errors.New("cachebench: invalid array close")
		}
		return nil
	default:
		return errors.New("cachebench: unexpected JSON delimiter")
	}
}

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Solutions

1. Fix the unexpected JSON delimiter (malformed JSON).

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at cacheengine/cachebench/strictjson.go:86 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of JuliusBrussee/caveman@27d5a3981a (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ccce468cdc10ab4b. Report an issue: GitHub.