This release includes a bug fix and minor change.
Fix: parse
throws on unclosed objects and arrays.
New: package.json5
has been removed until an easier way to keep it in sync
with package.json
is found.
This release includes major internal changes and public API enhancements.
Major JSON5 officially supports Node.js v4 and later. Support for Node.js v0.10 and v0.12 have been dropped.
New: Unicode property names and Unicode escapes in property names are supported. (#1)
New: stringify
outputs trailing commas in objects and arrays when a space
option is provided. (#66)
New: JSON5 allows line and paragraph separator characters (U+2028 and U+2029) in strings in order to be compatible with JSON. However, ES5 does not allow these characters in strings, so JSON5 gives a warning when they are parsed and escapes them when they are stringified. (#70)
New: stringify
accepts an options object as its second argument. The
supported options are replacer
, space
, and a new quote
option that
specifies the quote character used in strings. (#71)
New: The CLI supports STDIN and STDOUT and adds --out-file
, --space
, and
--validate
options. See json5 --help
for more information. (#72, #84,
and #108)
New: In addition to the white space characters space \t
, \v
, \f
, \n
,
\r
, and \xA0
, the additional white space characters \u2028
, \u2029
,
and all other characters in the Space Separator Unicode category are allowed.
New: In addition to the character escapes \'
, \"
, \\
, \b
, \f
, \n
,
\r
, and \t
, the additional character escapes \v
and \0
, hexadecimal
escapes like \x0F
, and unnecessary escapes like \a
are allowed in string
values and string property names.
New: stringify
outputs strings with single quotes by default but
intelligently uses double quotes if there are more single quotes than double
quotes inside the string. (i.e. stringify('Stay here.')
outputs
'Stay here.'
while stringify('Let\'s go.')
outputs "Let's go."
)
New: When a character is not allowed in a string, stringify
outputs a
character escape like \t
when available, a hexadecimal escape like \x0F
when the Unicode code point is less than 256, or a Unicode character escape
like \u01FF
, in that order.
New: stringify
checks for a toJSON5
method on objects and, if it exists,
stringifies its return value instead of the object. toJSON5
overrides
toJSON
if they both exist.
New: To require
or import
JSON5 files, use require('json5/lib/register')
or import 'json5/lib/register'
. Previous versions used json5/lib/require
,
which still exists for backward compatibility but is deprecated and will give
a warning.
New: To use JSON5 in browsers, use the file at dist/index.js
or
https://unpkg.com/json5@^1.0.0
.
Fix: stringify
properly outputs Infinity
and NaN
. (#67)
Fix: isWord
no longer becomes a property of JSON5
after calling
stringify
. (#68 and #89)
Fix: stringify
no longer throws when an object does not have a prototype
.
(#154)
Fix: stringify
properly handles the key
argument of toJSON(key)
methods.
toJSON5(key)
follows this pattern.
Fix: stringify
accepts Number
and String
objects as its space
argument.
Fix: In addition to a function, stringify
also accepts an array of keys to
include in the output as its replacer
argument. Numbers, Number
objects,
and String
objects will be converted to a string if they are given as array
values.
This release includes a minor fix for indentations when stringifying empty arrays.
This release includes major internal changes and public API enhancements.
Major: JSON5 officially supports Node.js v4 LTS and v5. Support for Node.js v0.6 and v0.8 have been dropped, while support for v0.10 and v0.12 remain.
Fix: YUI Compressor no longer fails when compressing json5.js. (#97)
New: parse
and the CLI provide line and column numbers when displaying error
messages. (#101; awesome work by @amb26.)
Note that v0.3.0 was tagged, but never published to npm, so this v0.4.0 changelog entry includes v0.3.0 features.
This is a massive release that adds stringify
support, among other things.
Major: JSON5.stringify()
now exists!
This method is analogous to the native JSON.stringify()
;
it just avoids quoting keys where possible.
See the usage documentation for more.
(#32; huge thanks and props @aeisenberg!)
New: NaN
and -NaN
are now allowed number literals.
(#30; thanks @rowanhill.)
New: Duplicate object keys are now allowed; the last value is used. This is the same behavior as JSON. (#57; thanks @jordanbtucker.)
Fix: Properly handle various whitespace and newline cases now. E.g. JSON5 now properly supports escaped CR and CRLF newlines in strings, and JSON5 now accepts the same whitespace as JSON (stricter than ES5). (#58, #60, and #63; thanks @jordanbtucker.)
New: Negative hexadecimal numbers (e.g. -0xC8
) are allowed again.
(They were disallowed in v0.2.0; see below.)
It turns out they are valid in ES5, so JSON5 supports them now too.
(#36; thanks @jordanbtucker!)
This release fixes some bugs and adds some more utility features to help you express data more easily:
Breaking: Negative hexadecimal numbers (e.g. -0xC8
) are rejected now.
While V8 (e.g. Chrome and Node) supported them, it turns out they're invalid
in ES5. This has been fixed in V8 (and by extension, Chrome
and Node), so JSON5 officially rejects them now, too. (#36)
New: Trailing decimal points in decimal numbers are allowed again. (They were disallowed in v0.1.0; see below.) They're allowed by ES5, and differentiating between integers and floats may make sense on some platforms. (#16; thanks @Midar.)
New: Infinity
and -Infinity
are now allowed number literals.
(#30; thanks @pepkin88.)
New: Plus signs (+
) in front of numbers are now allowed, since it can
be helpful in some contexts to explicitly mark numbers as positive.
(E.g. when a property represents changes or deltas.)
Fix: unescaped newlines in strings are rejected now. (#24; thanks @Midar.)
This release tightens JSON5 support and adds helpful utility features:
New: Support hexadecimal numbers. (Thanks @MaxNanasy.)
Fix: Reject octal numbers properly now. Previously, they were accepted but improperly parsed as base-10 numbers. (Thanks @MaxNanasy.)
Breaking: Reject "noctal" numbers now (base-10 numbers that begin with a leading zero). These are disallowed by both JSON5 and JSON, as well as by ES5's strict mode. (Thanks @MaxNanasy.)
New: Support leading decimal points in decimal numbers. (Thanks @MaxNanasy.)
Breaking: Reject trailing decimal points in decimal numbers now. These are disallowed by both JSON5 and JSON. (Thanks @MaxNanasy.)
Breaking: Reject omitted elements in arrays now. These are disallowed by both JSON5 and JSON.
Fix: Throw proper SyntaxError
instances on errors now.
New: Add Node.js require()
hook. Register via json5/lib/require
.
New: Add Node.js json5
executable to compile JSON5 files to JSON.
This was the first implementation of this JSON5 parser.
Support unquoted object keys, including reserved words. Unicode characters and escape sequences sequences aren't yet supported.
Support single-quoted strings.
Support multi-line strings.
Support trailing commas in arrays and objects.
Support comments, both inline and block.
Let's consider this to be Douglas Crockford's original json_parse.js — a parser for the regular JSON format.