Data-JavaScript

Revision history for Perl extension Data::JavaScript.

1.13 Thu Aug 14 11:01:10 EDT 2008

1.12 Wed Aug 13 22:48:12 EDT 2008

Some minor refactoring, including the removal of a dependency on Exporter
Fixed a misnumbered test in 1_11, which was intended to be a development release.
Escape </script> based on reports of certain stupid browsers ceasing to parse JavaScript upon encountering this string, even in strings.
Added explicit license

1_11 Tue Nov 15 14:30:22 EST 2005

Touched up documentation
Fixed syntax errors for hash key names that are also JS keywords Reported by Kevin J. of Activestate
Hash keys are now dumped in alphabetical order, this makes code easier to debug (as suggested by Scott Wessels) and is necessary for thorough testing.
Special characters tab, newline, carriage return, ", and \ are now escaped in place instead of as hex: \t, \n, \r, \", \\

1.10 Sun Nov 13 03:50 EST 2005

Touched up documentation
Explicitly requires Perl 5
Previously undocumented, "private", quotemeta is now __quotemeta though you may still import and use it
Defaults to JavaScript1.3 compatible code with Unicode and undefined support, specifc JS=>1.2 on the use line for backwards compatbility.
Removed unnecessary evaluation of numeric elements, this fixes octal interpretation of zipcodes, etc. Still, zipcodes such as 02137 would be correctly evaluated by the client as 1119. However, in keeping with the principle of least surprise any purely numeric string with a leading zero will be treated as a string and quoted. If you really meant to send a literal octal value, you can always eval the var Similarly, engineering and hex notations are passed through to strings as well.
Thanks for reports from Javier Arturo Rodriguez, Marius Feraru, Joseph Annino, Alan Fairless, Kevin J.
quotemeta has been completely rewritten with support for Unicode
Thanks for reports from Slaven Rezic, Marius Feraru, Sean Burke

1.08 Thu Feb 13 09:04:27 EST 2003

1.07 Sat Feb 8 12:40:16 EST 2003

Added means to control how undef is dumped, suggested by Slaven Rezic In doing so I have removed the undocumented feature that a list was silently transformed into a list reference.
Touched up the documentation

Ariel Brosh passed away a few months ago. I volunteered to maintain this module as it was the inspiration for my own Data::JavaScript::LiteObject

1.04  Thu Jul 19          2001
        - Fixed quoting back, thanks to Garick Hamlin

1.00 Mon Jun 12 21:03:29 2000