[CB-519] FileReader.readAsText performs automatic JSON.parse

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1
• Component/s: cordova-wp7 (DEFUNCT)

Environment

VS.NET 2010 and WP7.1 emulator

• Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
• Reporter: Alan Neveu
• Created: 16/Apr/12 18:52
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:47
• Resolved: 21/Apr/12 01:24

Description

After upgrading from 1.5 I find that FileReader.readAsText takes the liberty of performing a JSON.parse if my file happens to be a stringified JSON object. While this seems like a nice addition, my app connects to an ASP.NET web service which uses Microsoft's serialization objects to serve the JSON to my app. Because of this I have had to roll my own JSON parse and stringify functions to deal with Microsoft's version of date serialization. I am able to work with the automatic JSON.parse by checking for typeof == "object" and if that is what FileReader.readAsText has returned then I go ahead and use my own JSON.stringify and JSON.parse and go along on my way. But I thought it was odd that this automatic JSON.parse would happen in the first place, so I submit this as a bug in case someone was doing some testing/debugging and accidentally left a line of code in place that should really not be there. I can live with it if it is intentional, but I think it would be more intuitive to not do automatic JSON operations that the function name does not indicate.