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sdk/lib/codec/json.dart

Index: sdk/lib/codec/json.dart
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+// Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+part of dart.codec;
+
+final JSON = new JsonCodec();
+
+/**
+ * A [JsonCodec] encodes JSON objects to strings and decodes strings to
+ * JSON objects.
+ */
+class JsonCodec extends Codec<Object, String> {
+  const JsonCodec();
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a `JsonCodec` with the given reviver.
+   *
+   * The [reviver] function is called once for each object or list property
+   * that has been parsed during decoding. The `key` argument is either the
+   * integer list index for a list property, the map string for object
+   * properties, or `null` for the final result.
+   */
+  factory JsonCodec.withReviver(reviver(var key, var value)) =
+      _ReviverJsonCodec;
+
+  /**
+   * Parses the string and returns the resulting Json object.
+   *
+   * The optional [reviver] function, if provided, is called once for each
+   * object or list property parsed.
+   */
+  Object decode(String str, {reviver(var key, var value)}) {
+    return new JsonDecoder(reviver).convert(str);
+  }
+
+  JsonEncoder get encoder => new JsonEncoder();
+  JsonDecoder get decoder => new JsonDecoder(null);
+}
+
+class _ReviverJsonCodec extends JsonCodec {
+  final Function _reviver;
+  _ReviverJsonCodec(this._reviver);
+
+  Object decode(String str, {reviver(var key, var value)}) {
+    reviver = (reviver == null) ? _reviver : reviver;

[srdjan, 2013/07/12 16:03:16]

Why not:
if (reviver == null) {
  reviver = reviver_;
}

[floitsch, 2013/07/12 16:09:15]

Done.

+    return new JsonDecoder(reviver).convert(str);
+  }
+
+  JsonDecoder get decoder => new JsonDecoder(_reviver);
+}