.NET 8 dotnet-user-jwts does not support JSON files with comments in them

[EmperorArthur]

Backport Request

Per @martincostello this was fixed for .NET 9, but has not yet been backported to .NET 8.

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Describe the bug

The tool dotnet-user-jwts does not work if appsettings.Development.json has any comments "//" in it.
This is different from the behavior of ApplicationBuilder.

Expected Behavior

dotnet-user-jwts can parse any file which is considered valid by IconfigurationBuilder.AddJsonFile(...).

Steps To Reproduce

Add a comment line "//" to appsettings.Development.json, then run dotnet user-jwts create

Exceptions (if any)

'/' is invalid after a value. Expected either ',', '}', or ']'.

.NET Version

8.0.204

Anything else?

No response

[martincostello]

Duplicate of #54814.

This was fixed for .NET 9 in #54826, but the fix hasn't been back-ported to .NET 8.

[EmperorArthur]

I have edited the title to explicitly reference .NET 8. Since I believe this should be backported.

.NET 9 doesn't even have a road map in the documentation last time I checked.

Edit: Roadmap is not relevant, compared to the November release date and that .NET 8 is LTS.

[martincostello]

.NET 9 will be released in November, as each new major version is.

[EmperorArthur]

.NET 9 will be released in November, as each new major version is.

Edited, as that's half of what I meant to say. The other half is .NET 8 is an LTS release.

It's not a large priority for me, since I discovered the tool does not work if Authentication:Schemes:Bearer:Authority is also set.