28. September 2010 14:37
Okay, the availability of JSON.parse and JSON.stringify is awesome in modern browsers.
I'm including my modifications to the JSON.org json2.js script to include a
method JSON.parseAjax that will revive ISO-8601 and Microsoft Ajax encoded
Date strings into a native Date object. I am also checking against the IE version
as a bug in IE8's native JSON.parse method may raise an error that you can't catch
when you extend the prototype of Array, Function, Object etc.
//parse a test string, where test1 is an ISO-8601 Date, and test2 is an MS-Ajax Date
var obj = JSON.parseAjax('{"test1":"1970-01-01T00:00:00Z", "test2":"\\\/Date(0)\\\/"}');
//object was returned and test1's value equals test2's value
alert( obj && obj.test1.valueOf() == obj.test2.valueOf());
This allows you to handle a number of different methods of returning Date-Time
strings from the server. It's worth noting that you should always send date
times as UTC based when passing over the wire.
json2-ajax.js (15.25 kb)
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