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Encode and decode data to and from JSON.
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module.exports = {
friendlyName: 'Stringify as JSON',
description: 'Encode the specified value into a JSON string.',
sync: true,
cacheable: true,
inputs: {
value: {
friendlyName: 'Data',
description: 'The data to encode as a JSON string',
example: '*',
required: true
}
},
exits: {
couldNotStringify: {
friendlyName: 'could not stringify',
description: 'Could not stringify provided value into a JSON string.',
extendedDescription: 'Oftentimes this error results from attempting to stringify a circular object (i.e. has a key or array item which points back to the parent object). Refer to the official JSON specification at http://www.json.org/ for more information.'
},
success: {
friendlyName: 'then',
description: 'Done.',
example: '...{"some stringified json": "like this"}...'
}
},
fn: function(inputs, exits) {
var jsonString;
try {
jsonString = JSON.stringify(inputs.value);
}
catch (e){
return exits.couldNotStringify(e);
}
return exits.success(jsonString);
}
};