2 http://www.JSON.org/json2.js
7 NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
9 See http://www.JSON.org/js.html
11 This file creates a global JSON object containing two methods: stringify
14 JSON.stringify(value, replacer, space)
15 value any JavaScript value, usually an object or array.
17 replacer an optional parameter that determines how object
18 values are stringified for objects. It can be a
19 function or an array of strings.
21 space an optional parameter that specifies the indentation
22 of nested structures. If it is omitted, the text will
23 be packed without extra whitespace. If it is a number,
24 it will specify the number of spaces to indent at each
25 level. If it is a string (such as '\t' or ' '),
26 it contains the characters used to indent at each level.
28 This method produces a JSON text from a JavaScript value.
30 When an object value is found, if the object contains a toJSON
31 method, its toJSON method will be called and the result will be
32 stringified. A toJSON method does not serialize: it returns the
33 value represented by the name/value pair that should be serialized,
34 or undefined if nothing should be serialized. The toJSON method
35 will be passed the key associated with the value, and this will be
38 For example, this would serialize Dates as ISO strings.
40 Date.prototype.toJSON = function (key) {
42 // Format integers to have at least two digits.
43 return n < 10 ? '0' + n : n;
46 return this.getUTCFullYear() + '-' +
47 f(this.getUTCMonth() + 1) + '-' +
48 f(this.getUTCDate()) + 'T' +
49 f(this.getUTCHours()) + ':' +
50 f(this.getUTCMinutes()) + ':' +
51 f(this.getUTCSeconds()) + 'Z';
54 You can provide an optional replacer method. It will be passed the
55 key and value of each member, with this bound to the containing
56 object. The value that is returned from your method will be
57 serialized. If your method returns undefined, then the member will
58 be excluded from the serialization.
60 If the replacer parameter is an array of strings, then it will be
61 used to select the members to be serialized. It filters the results
62 such that only members with keys listed in the replacer array are
65 Values that do not have JSON representations, such as undefined or
66 functions, will not be serialized. Such values in objects will be
67 dropped; in arrays they will be replaced with null. You can use
68 a replacer function to replace those with JSON values.
69 JSON.stringify(undefined) returns undefined.
71 The optional space parameter produces a stringification of the
72 value that is filled with line breaks and indentation to make it
75 If the space parameter is a non-empty string, then that string will
76 be used for indentation. If the space parameter is a number, then
77 the indentation will be that many spaces.
81 text = JSON.stringify(['e', {pluribus: 'unum'}]);
82 // text is '["e",{"pluribus":"unum"}]'
85 text = JSON.stringify(['e', {pluribus: 'unum'}], null, '\t');
86 // text is '[\n\t"e",\n\t{\n\t\t"pluribus": "unum"\n\t}\n]'
88 text = JSON.stringify([new Date()], function (key, value) {
89 return this[key] instanceof Date ?
90 'Date(' + this[key] + ')' : value;
92 // text is '["Date(---current time---)"]'
95 JSON.parse(text, reviver)
96 This method parses a JSON text to produce an object or array.
97 It can throw a SyntaxError exception.
99 The optional reviver parameter is a function that can filter and
100 transform the results. It receives each of the keys and values,
101 and its return value is used instead of the original value.
102 If it returns what it received, then the structure is not modified.
103 If it returns undefined then the member is deleted.
107 // Parse the text. Values that look like ISO date strings will
108 // be converted to Date objects.
110 myData = JSON.parse(text, function (key, value) {
112 if (typeof value === 'string') {
114 /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}(?:\.\d*)?)Z$/.exec(value);
116 return new Date(Date.UTC(+a[1], +a[2] - 1, +a[3], +a[4],
123 myData = JSON.parse('["Date(09/09/2001)"]', function (key, value) {
125 if (typeof value === 'string' &&
126 value.slice(0, 5) === 'Date(' &&
127 value.slice(-1) === ')') {
128 d = new Date(value.slice(5, -1));
137 This is a reference implementation. You are free to copy, modify, or
140 This code should be minified before deployment.
141 See http://javascript.crockford.com/jsmin.html
143 USE YOUR OWN COPY. IT IS EXTREMELY UNWISE TO LOAD CODE FROM SERVERS YOU DO
147 /*jslint evil: true, strict: false */
149 /*members "", "\b", "\t", "\n", "\f", "\r", "\"", JSON, "\\", apply,
150 call, charCodeAt, getUTCDate, getUTCFullYear, getUTCHours,
151 getUTCMinutes, getUTCMonth, getUTCSeconds, hasOwnProperty, join,
152 lastIndex, length, parse, prototype, push, replace, slice, stringify,
153 test, toJSON, toString, valueOf
157 // Create a JSON object only if one does not already exist. We create the
158 // methods in a closure to avoid creating global variables.
166 var cx = /[\u0000\u00ad\u0600-\u0604\u070f\u17b4\u17b5\u200c-\u200f\u2028-\u202f\u2060-\u206f\ufeff\ufff0-\uffff]/g,
167 escapable = /[\\\"\x00-\x1f\x7f-\x9f\u00ad\u0600-\u0604\u070f\u17b4\u17b5\u200c-\u200f\u2028-\u202f\u2060-\u206f\ufeff\ufff0-\uffff]/g,
173 function quote(string) {
175 // If the string contains no control characters, no quote characters, and no
176 // backslash characters, then we can safely slap some quotes around it.
177 // Otherwise we must also replace the offending characters with safe escape
180 return '"'+string+'"';
184 function str(key, holder) {
186 // Produce a string from holder[key].
188 var i, // The loop counter.
189 k, // The member key.
190 v, // The member value.
196 // If the value has a toJSON method, call it to obtain a replacement value.
198 //if (value && typeof value === 'object' &&
199 // typeof value.toJSON === 'function') {
200 // value = value.toJSON(key);
203 // If we were called with a replacer function, then call the replacer to
204 // obtain a replacement value.
206 if (typeof rep === 'function') {
207 value = rep.call(holder, key, value);
210 // What happens next depends on the value's type.
212 switch (typeof value) {
218 // JSON numbers must be finite. Encode non-finite numbers as null.
220 return isFinite(value) ? String(value) : 'null';
225 // If the value is a boolean or null, convert it to a string. Note:
226 // typeof null does not produce 'null'. The case is included here in
227 // the remote chance that this gets fixed someday.
229 return String(value);
231 // If the type is 'object', we might be dealing with an object or an array or
236 // Due to a specification blunder in ECMAScript, typeof null is 'object',
237 // so watch out for that case.
243 // Make an array to hold the partial results of stringifying this object value.
248 // Is the value an array?
250 if (Object.prototype.toString.apply(value) === '[object Array]') {
252 // The value is an array. Stringify every element. Use null as a placeholder
253 // for non-JSON values.
255 length = value.length;
256 for (i = 0; i < length; i += 1) {
257 partial[i] = str(i, value) || 'null';
260 // Join all of the elements together, separated with commas, and wrap them in
263 v = partial.length === 0 ? '[]' :
265 partial.join(',\n' + gap) + '\n' +
267 '[' + partial.join(',') + ']';
272 // If the replacer is an array, use it to select the members to be stringified.
275 // Otherwise, iterate through all of the keys in the object.
278 if (Object.hasOwnProperty.call(value, k)) {
281 partial.push(quote(k) + (gap ? ': ' : ':') + v);
286 // Join all of the member texts together, separated with commas,
287 // and wrap them in braces.
289 v = partial.length === 0 ? '{}' :
290 gap ? '{\n' + gap + partial.join(',\n' + gap) + '\n' +
291 mind + '}' : '{' + partial.join(',') + '}';
297 // If the JSON object does not yet have a stringify method, give it one.
300 typeof JSON.stringify !== 'function' ||
302 navigator.product == 'Gecko' &&
303 //There is a know bug with some version of FF 3.5 with the replacer parameters, this test, is to check if the browser havent a bugy version of JSON.stringify
305 var tmp = JSON.stringify({x:1}, function (k,v) {
306 return typeof v === 'number' ? 3 : v;
308 return tmp.x == 1 ? true : false;
313 JSON.stringify = function (value, replacer, space) {
315 return str('', {'': value});
320 // If the JSON object does not yet have a parse method, give it one.
322 if (typeof JSON.parse !== 'function') {
323 JSON.parse = function (text, reviver) {
325 // The parse method takes a text and an optional reviver function, and returns
326 // a JavaScript value if the text is a valid JSON text.
330 function walk(holder, key) {
332 // The walk method is used to recursively walk the resulting structure so
333 // that modifications can be made.
335 var k, v, value = holder[key];
336 if (value && typeof value === 'object') {
338 if (Object.hasOwnProperty.call(value, k)) {
340 if (v !== undefined) {
348 return reviver.call(holder, key, value);
352 // Parsing happens in four stages. In the first stage, we replace certain
353 // Unicode characters with escape sequences. JavaScript handles many characters
354 // incorrectly, either silently deleting them, or treating them as line endings.
358 text = text.replace(cx, function (a) {
360 ('0000' + a.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-4);
364 // In the second stage, we run the text against regular expressions that look
365 // for non-JSON patterns. We are especially concerned with '()' and 'new'
366 // because they can cause invocation, and '=' because it can cause mutation.
367 // But just to be safe, we want to reject all unexpected forms.
369 // We split the second stage into 4 regexp operations in order to work around
370 // crippling inefficiencies in IE's and Safari's regexp engines. First we
371 // replace the JSON backslash pairs with '@' (a non-JSON character). Second, we
372 // replace all simple value tokens with ']' characters. Third, we delete all
373 // open brackets that follow a colon or comma or that begin the text. Finally,
374 // we look to see that the remaining characters are only whitespace or ']' or
375 // ',' or ':' or '{' or '}'. If that is so, then the text is safe for eval.
378 test(text.replace(/\\(?:["\\\/bfnrt]|u[0-9a-fA-F]{4})/g, '@').
379 replace(/"[^"\\\n\r]*"|true|false|null|-?\d+(?:\.\d*)?(?:[eE][+\-]?\d+)?/g, ']').
380 replace(/(?:^|:|,)(?:\s*\[)+/g, ''))) {
382 // In the third stage we use the eval function to compile the text into a
383 // JavaScript structure. The '{' operator is subject to a syntactic ambiguity
384 // in JavaScript: it can begin a block or an object literal. We wrap the text
385 // in parens to eliminate the ambiguity.
387 j = eval('(' + text + ')');
389 // In the optional fourth stage, we recursively walk the new structure, passing
390 // each name/value pair to a reviver function for possible transformation.
392 return typeof reviver === 'function' ?
393 walk({'': j}, '') : j;
396 // If the text is not JSON parseable, then a SyntaxError is thrown.
398 throw new SyntaxError('JSON.parse');