GSON `fromJson` can't parse JSON without quotes!

For example:

{
   name : Google Company,
   age:19
}

That’s OK following codes, I can get correct value:

JsonObject jsonObject = new JsonParser().parse(jsonSt).getAsJsonObject();
String name = jsonObject.get("name").getAsString();
int age = jsonObject.get("age").getAsInt();

but it can’t parse into a bean class using fromJson

will cause Exception like this:

java.lang.RuntimeException: 
com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: 
com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Unterminated object at line 1 column 15 path $.name

[danorton-cubic-austin]

This is correct behavior. Your example is not valid JSON. See https://www.json.org/

[cowtowncoder]

One follow-up question, still: why does JsonParser.parse(...) accept content that does not enclose Object keys in double-quotes? I have seen test code that seems to rely on this behavior, but Javadocs:

https://static.javadoc.io/com.google.code.gson/gson/2.8.5/com/google/gson/JsonParser.html#parse-java.io.Reader-

do not really mention anything about more lenient handling. So it would seem like this SHOULD indicate exception, too. But apparently it does not. Would that part be considered a bug, or perhaps missing documentation if more lenient handling is intentional?