encoding/json: add Decoder.InputOffset for offset access

This makes Decoder.offset public while renaming it to
Decoder.InputOffset to match encoding/xml Decoder API

Code changes made by Adam Stankiewicz [sheerun@sher.pl]

Fixes #29688

Change-Id: I86dbfd2b2da80160846e92bfa580c53d8d45e2db
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/200677
Run-TryBot: Johan Brandhorst <johan.brandhorst@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
diff --git a/src/encoding/json/stream.go b/src/encoding/json/stream.go
index 3d30322..81f404f 100644
--- a/src/encoding/json/stream.go
+++ b/src/encoding/json/stream.go
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 	}
 
 	if !dec.tokenValueAllowed() {
-		return &SyntaxError{msg: "not at beginning of value", Offset: dec.offset()}
+		return &SyntaxError{msg: "not at beginning of value", Offset: dec.InputOffset()}
 	}
 
 	// Read whole value into buffer.
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
 			return err
 		}
 		if c != ',' {
-			return &SyntaxError{"expected comma after array element", dec.offset()}
+			return &SyntaxError{"expected comma after array element", dec.InputOffset()}
 		}
 		dec.scanp++
 		dec.tokenState = tokenArrayValue
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
 			return err
 		}
 		if c != ':' {
-			return &SyntaxError{"expected colon after object key", dec.offset()}
+			return &SyntaxError{"expected colon after object key", dec.InputOffset()}
 		}
 		dec.scanp++
 		dec.tokenState = tokenObjectValue
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@
 	case tokenObjectComma:
 		context = " after object key:value pair"
 	}
-	return nil, &SyntaxError{"invalid character " + quoteChar(c) + context, dec.offset()}
+	return nil, &SyntaxError{"invalid character " + quoteChar(c) + context, dec.InputOffset()}
 }
 
 // More reports whether there is another element in the
@@ -506,6 +506,9 @@
 	}
 }
 
-func (dec *Decoder) offset() int64 {
+// InputOffset returns the input stream byte offset of the current decoder position.
+// The offset gives the location of the end of the most recently returned token
+// and the beginning of the next token.
+func (dec *Decoder) InputOffset() int64 {
 	return dec.scanned + int64(dec.scanp)
 }