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Use the native JSON object if available
Reported by Jan Kassens | October 11th, 2008 @ 06:43 PM | in 2.0 (closed)
A nightly of Firefox introduced an native JSON object, for JSON parsing. We should be compatible with that and use the native parser if available.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Jan Kassens October 11th, 2008 @ 06:44 PM
- State changed from new to open
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thomasd October 17th, 2008 @ 09:18 AM
- Tag set to firefox3.1, json
This is my fast fix, without using the native parser. Without that fix ff3.1b2pre throws an error: "redeclaration of const JSON" and the whole script breaks.
I know, it's not very elegant, but it works: Instead of:
var JSON = new Hash({ //decleration of encode and decode });
Write this:
if (JSON === undefined) { //I don't want to make JSON a global so I decided to write window.JSON //I think there isn't much difference, but I don't like globals window.JSON = new Hash(); } $extend(JSON, { //decleration of encode and decode });
mootools 1.3 should support the native parser-methods, stringify and parse and use the native implementations if available as Jan already suggests.
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thomasd October 17th, 2008 @ 10:23 AM
- Tag changed from firefox3.1, json to firefox3.1, json
A small fix to my previous post:
if (JSON === undefined) { }
Should be:
if (window['JSON'] === undefined) { }
or you get an "JSON is undefined" error.
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Christoph Pojer March 13th, 2009 @ 12:43 PM
- Assigned user changed from Jan Kassens to Christoph Pojer
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Christoph Pojer March 22nd, 2009 @ 02:27 AM
- Milestone changed from 1.2.3 to 2.0
- State changed from open to resolved
This will be added in the next major release of mootools at latest
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