javascript/atoms/json.js

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/**
 * @fileoverview Provides JSON utilities that uses native JSON parsing where
 * possible (a feature not currently offered by Closure).
 */

goog.provide('bot.json');

goog.require('bot.userAgent');
goog.require('goog.json');
goog.require('goog.userAgent');


/**
 * @define {boolean} NATIVE_JSON indicates whether the code should rely on the
 * native `JSON` functions, if available.
 *
 * <p>The JSON functions can be defined by external libraries like Prototype
 * and setting this flag to false forces the use of Closure's goog.json
 * implementation.
 *
 * <p>If your JavaScript can be loaded by a third_party site and you are wary
 * about relying on the native functions, specify
 * "--define bot.json.NATIVE_JSON=false" to the Closure compiler.
 */
bot.json.NATIVE_JSON = true;


/**
 * Whether the current browser supports the native JSON interface.
 * @const
 * @see http://caniuse.com/#search=JSON
 * @private {boolean}
 */
bot.json.SUPPORTS_NATIVE_JSON_ =
    // List WebKit first since every supported version supports
    // native JSON (and we can compile away large chunks of code for
    // individual fragments by setting the appropriate compiler flags).
    goog.userAgent.WEBKIT ||
    (goog.userAgent.GECKO && bot.userAgent.isEngineVersion(3.5)) ||
    (goog.userAgent.IE && bot.userAgent.isEngineVersion(8));


/**
 * Converts a JSON object to its string representation.
 * @param {*} jsonObj The input object.
 * @param {?(function(string, *): *)=} opt_replacer A replacer function called
 *     for each (key, value) pair that determines how the value should be
 *     serialized. By default, this just returns the value and allows default
 *     serialization to kick in.
 * @return {string} A JSON string representation of the input object.
 */
bot.json.stringify = bot.json.NATIVE_JSON && bot.json.SUPPORTS_NATIVE_JSON_ ?
    JSON.stringify : goog.json.serialize;


/**
 * Parses a JSON string and returns the result.
 * @param {string} jsonStr The string to parse.
 * @return {*} The JSON object.
 * @throws {Error} If the input string is an invalid JSON string.
 */
bot.json.parse = JSON.parse;