JSON

• Functions of the JSON object

Version 1

The JSON library provides methods to convert Javascript objects into Javascript strings and vice-versa.

This library supplies a copy of the JSON Javascript implementation by Douglas Crockford. The source code to this library is available online at http://www.json.org/json2.js. Our system library is a convenience to avoid the need for you to copy and paste this source code into your own applications.

system('json',1);

var today = new Date();
var s_today = JSON.stringify(today);
database.save('today',s_today);

var s_yesterday = database.load('yesterday');
if( s_yesterday ) {
   var yesterday = JSON.parse(s_yesterday);
}

These methods are particularly useful when storing object information in the database (which only accepts string, number, and boolean values) as above. They are also helpful when creating or acting as a client to JSON based AJAX services.

For the full behaviour and implications of the JSON standard see the http://json.org/ website.

Note, this version of the json system library imports version 1 of the patches library automatically.

Functions

• stringify(object)
• parse(text)

JSON.stringify(object)

JSON.parse(text)