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/*
An implementation of: http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/json-and-jsonp/
that handles multiple connections at once (don't want to replace the global callback if second
request is sent after the first, but returns before.
*/

(function(global) {

var callbackCounter = 0;
var evalJSONP = function(callback) {
	return function(data) {
		var validJSON = false;
		if (typeof data == "string") {
			try {validJSON = JSON.parse(data);} catch (e) {
				/*invalid JSON*/}
		} else {
			validJSON = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data));
			window.console && console.warn(
				'response data was not a JSON string');
		}
		if (validJSON) {
			callback(validJSON);
		} else {
			throw("JSONP call returned invalid or empty JSON");
		}
	}
}

global.safeJSONP = function(url, callback) {
	var fn = 'JSONPCallback_' + callbackCounter++;
	global[fn] = evalJSONP(callback);
	url = url.replace('=JSONPCallback', '=' + fn);
	
    var scriptTag = document.createElement('SCRIPT');
    scriptTag.src = url;
    document.getElementsByTagName('HEAD')[0].appendChild(scriptTag);
}

})(this);