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A simple implementation of JSON.stringify; covers every case I could think of
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function stringify(obj) { | |
if (typeof obj !== 'object' || obj === null || obj instanceof Array) { | |
return value(obj); | |
} | |
return '{' + Object.keys(obj).map(function (k) { | |
return (typeof obj[k] === 'function') ? null : '"' + k + '":' + value(obj[k]); | |
}).filter(function (i) { return i; }) + '}'; | |
} | |
function value(val) { | |
switch(typeof val) { | |
case 'string': | |
return '"' + val.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').replace('"', '\\"') + '"'; | |
case 'number': | |
case 'boolean': | |
return '' + val; | |
case 'function': | |
return 'null'; | |
case 'object': | |
if (val instanceof Date) return '"' + val.toISOString() + '"'; | |
if (val instanceof Array) return '[' + val.map(value).join(',') + ']'; | |
if (val === null) return 'null'; | |
return stringify(val); | |
} | |
} | |
var assert = require('assert'); | |
describe('stringify', function () { | |
function check(o) { | |
return function () { | |
assert.equal(stringify(o), JSON.stringify(o)); | |
}; | |
} | |
it("string", check('andrew')); | |
it('string with special chars', check('this"is a \\test')); | |
it("number", check(10)); | |
it("true", check(true)); | |
it("false", check(false)); | |
it("null", check(null)); | |
it("array", check(['one', 'two', 1, { name: 'andrew'}])); | |
it("empty object", check({})); | |
it("string prop", check({ name: "andrew" })); | |
it("number prop", check({ name: "andrew", age: 24 })); | |
it("boolean prop", check({ name: "andrew", age: 24, married: false, single: true })); | |
it("date prop", check({ name: "andrew", age: 24, married: false, single: true, date: new Date() })); | |
it("array prop of strings", check({ array: ['one', 'two'] })); | |
it("array prop of differing values", check({ array: ['one', 2, false, null, { value: 'five', or: 2}] })); | |
it("null prop", check({ array: ['one', 'two'], nothing: null })); | |
it("object prop", check({ name: 'andrew', address: { streetAddress: '21st street', city: 'New York', state: 'NY'}})); | |
it("functions", check({ name: 'andrew', doSomething: function () {} })); | |
it("functions in array property", check({ name: 'andrew', doSomething: [function () {}] })); | |
}); |
what does the string regex handler mean?
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return '"' + val.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').replace('"', '\\"') + '"';
it replaces the single-backslash into triple-backslashes('\'), then make the ""
to be \\"
, any use cases?
For example:
const s = "hello, \"alice\"";
Json.stringnify output :
"\"hello, \\\"alice\\\"\""
Your output:
"\"hello, \\\"alice\"\""
Just want to know how and where do you know the rules of JSON.stringnify does?
I have created the whole implementation of the JSON.stringify() method in a recursive way. Here is the link:
https://javascript.plainenglish.io/create-your-own-implementation-of-json-stringify-simiplied-version-8ab6746cdd1
Github link: https://github.com/siddharth-sunchu/native-methods/blob/master/JSONStringfy.js
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It looks like this will fail for arrays with undefined values and will omit that indice entirely when it should be replaced with
null
. For example, it looks like functions ARE handled properly but notundefined
in this output:Might actually be a symptom of
undefined
not being handled properly overall. I'm coding this up for practice myself and I have this guard at the top of my recursive function:I suppose you'd do this similar to how you're already handling
null