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diff --git a/node_modules/json-stable-stringify/readme.markdown b/node_modules/json-stable-stringify/readme.markdown new file mode 100644 index 000000000..406c3c726 --- /dev/null +++ b/node_modules/json-stable-stringify/readme.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +# json-stable-stringify + +deterministic version of `JSON.stringify()` so you can get a consistent hash +from stringified results + +You can also pass in a custom comparison function. + +[](https://ci.testling.com/substack/json-stable-stringify) + +[](http://travis-ci.org/substack/json-stable-stringify) + +# example + +``` js +var stringify = require('json-stable-stringify'); +var obj = { c: 8, b: [{z:6,y:5,x:4},7], a: 3 }; +console.log(stringify(obj)); +``` + +output: + +``` +{"a":3,"b":[{"x":4,"y":5,"z":6},7],"c":8} +``` + +# methods + +``` js +var stringify = require('json-stable-stringify') +``` + +## var str = stringify(obj, opts) + +Return a deterministic stringified string `str` from the object `obj`. + +## options + +### cmp + +If `opts` is given, you can supply an `opts.cmp` to have a custom comparison +function for object keys. Your function `opts.cmp` is called with these +parameters: + +``` js +opts.cmp({ key: akey, value: avalue }, { key: bkey, value: bvalue }) +``` + +For example, to sort on the object key names in reverse order you could write: + +``` js +var stringify = require('json-stable-stringify'); + +var obj = { c: 8, b: [{z:6,y:5,x:4},7], a: 3 }; +var s = stringify(obj, function (a, b) { + return a.key < b.key ? 1 : -1; +}); +console.log(s); +``` + +which results in the output string: + +``` +{"c":8,"b":[{"z":6,"y":5,"x":4},7],"a":3} +``` + +Or if you wanted to sort on the object values in reverse order, you could write: + +``` +var stringify = require('json-stable-stringify'); + +var obj = { d: 6, c: 5, b: [{z:3,y:2,x:1},9], a: 10 }; +var s = stringify(obj, function (a, b) { + return a.value < b.value ? 1 : -1; +}); +console.log(s); +``` + +which outputs: + +``` +{"d":6,"c":5,"b":[{"z":3,"y":2,"x":1},9],"a":10} +``` + +### space + +If you specify `opts.space`, it will indent the output for pretty-printing. +Valid values are strings (e.g. `{space: \t}`) or a number of spaces +(`{space: 3}`). + +For example: + +```js +var obj = { b: 1, a: { foo: 'bar', and: [1, 2, 3] } }; +var s = stringify(obj, { space: ' ' }); +console.log(s); +``` + +which outputs: + +``` +{ + "a": { + "and": [ + 1, + 2, + 3 + ], + "foo": "bar" + }, + "b": 1 +} +``` + +### replacer + +The replacer parameter is a function `opts.replacer(key, value)` that behaves +the same as the replacer +[from the core JSON object](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Using_native_JSON#The_replacer_parameter). + +# install + +With [npm](https://npmjs.org) do: + +``` +npm install json-stable-stringify +``` + +# license + +MIT |