read_json cannot parse a simple json array

[gschoeni]

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Reproducible example

I have a simple json array of strings

cat json_array.json | jq

[
  "test",
  "ing"
]

import polars as pl
pl.read_json("json_array.json")

And it throws an error parsing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/gregschoeninger/.venv_oxen/lib/python3.10/site-packages/polars/io/json/read.py", line 96, in read_json
    pydf = PyDataFrame.read_json(
polars.exceptions.ComputeError: can only deserialize json objects

Log output

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Issue description

read_jsonCannot parse a simple json array of strings. attached the file.

json_array.json

Expected behavior

It should parse into a simple data frame with a single column of strings

Installed versions

--------Version info---------
Polars:              1.7.1
Index type:          UInt32
Platform:            macOS-14.6.1-arm64-arm-64bit
Python:              3.10.6 (main, Dec 11 2022, 04:44:05) [Clang 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.102)]

----Optional dependencies----
adbc_driver_manager  <not installed>
altair               5.2.0
cloudpickle          2.0.0
connectorx           <not installed>
deltalake            <not installed>
fastexcel            <not installed>
fsspec               2023.9.2
gevent               <not installed>
great_tables         <not installed>
matplotlib           3.8.3
nest_asyncio         1.6.0
numpy                1.26.4
openpyxl             <not installed>
pandas               2.0.1
pyarrow              15.0.2
pydantic             2.5.3
pyiceberg            <not installed>
sqlalchemy           2.0.28
torch                2.1.1
xlsx2csv             <not installed>
xlsxwriter           <not installed>