From 3294904ee45301d32ee20c03c28587fc1e8b97d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Bucknall <alex.bucknall@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 16:29:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: support valid JSON object parsing for -setup

---
 notecard/scan.go | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/notecard/scan.go b/notecard/scan.go
index 5def0ec..c0a86a5 100644
--- a/notecard/scan.go
+++ b/notecard/scan.go
@@ -400,6 +400,14 @@ func loadRequests(filename string) (requests []map[string]interface{}, err error
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
+
+	// First try to parse as a valid JSON array
+	err = note.JSONUnmarshal(contents, &requests)
+	if err == nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Then try to parse as a newline-delimited list of JSON objects
 	jrecs := bytes.Split(contents, []byte("\n"))
 	for _, line := range jrecs {
 		line = bytes.TrimSpace(line)