If you don't want to kill everything, and have a code that would be okay on most browsers, you could do it this way :
(function (undefined) { // This is just to limit _json_stringify to this scope and to redefine undefined in case it was
if (true ||typeof (Prototype) !== 'undefined') {
// First, ensure we can access the prototype of an object.
// See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7662147/how-to-access-object-prototype-in-javascript
if(typeof (Object.getPrototypeOf) === 'undefined') {
if(({}).__proto__ === Object.prototype && ([]).__proto__ === Array.prototype) {
Object.getPrototypeOf = function getPrototypeOf (object) {
return object.__proto__;
};
} else {
Object.getPrototypeOf = function getPrototypeOf (object) {
// May break if the constructor has been changed or removed
return object.constructor ? object.constructor.prototype : undefined;
}
}
}
var _json_stringify = JSON.stringify; // We save the actual JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify = function stringify (obj) {
var obj_prototype = Object.getPrototypeOf(obj),
old_json = obj_prototype.toJSON, // We save the toJSON of the object
res = null;
if (old_json) { // If toJSON exists on the object
obj_prototype.toJSON = undefined;
}
res = _json_stringify.apply(this, arguments);
if (old_json)
obj_prototype.toJSON = old_json;
return res;
};
}
}.call(this));
This seems complex, but this is complex only to handle most use cases.
The main idea is overriding JSON.stringify
to remove toJSON
from the object passed as an argument, then call the old JSON.stringify
, and finally restore it.