safejson

Concise library to parse and stringify JSON without the need for try catch. Simply use the standard Node.js pattern of providing parameters and a callback that takes an error as the first parameter and result as the second.

This library is nice for chaining operations using async as demonstrated below.

Browser Support

Pretty much any browser with JSON support.

Install

npm install safejson --save

bower install safejson --save

Example with Async

var safejson = require('safejson')
  , async = require('async')
  , fs = require('fs');

exports.updateFile = function (callback) {
  async.waterfall([
    readFile,
    safejson.parse,
    doUpdate,
    safejson.stringify,
    writeFile
  ], callback); 
}

Example (Parse)

// Valid JSON object that will stringify
var VALID_OBJECT = {
  name: 'evan',
  age: 23
};

var VALID_JSON_STRING = JSON.stringify(VALID_OBJECT);


safejson.parse(VALID_JSON_STRING, function(err, json) {
  // err is null as no error would have occured due to valid input
  // json is a valid JSON object
});

Example (Stringify)

// Valid JSON object that will stringify
var VALID_OBJECT = {
  name: 'evan',
  age: 23
};

// Invalid JSON object, has a circular reference added below
var CIRCULAR_OBJECT = {
  name: 'evan',
  age: 23
};
CIRCULAR_OBJECT.cref = CIRCULAR_OBJECT;

safejson.stringify(VALID_OBJECT, function(err, json) {
  // err would be null as the object is valid json
  // json is a valid json string
});

safejson.stringify(CIRCULAR_OBJECT, function(err, str) {
  // err would be defined as the object contained a circular reference
  // str would equal null
});

Configs

safejson.defer = {Boolean}

If true the parsing of JSON will be briefly deffered. This uses process.nextTick in Node.js and the appropriate browser shim (setTimeout for example) where necessary.

Methods

safejson.stringify(value[, replacer [, space]], callback)

Does the job of JSON.stringify but handles exceptions for you. Supports all the usual JSON.stringify parameters, including the optional replacer and spaces. The last parameter must always be a callback function and is not optional.

safejson.parse(str[, reviver], callback)

Does the job of JSON.parse but handles exceptions for you. Supports all the usual JSON.parse parameters. The last parameter must always be a callback function and is not optional.