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tcorral#3

Author: Alamantus

src/JSONC.js

@@ -272,7 +272,27 @@
    */
   JSONC.pack = function (json, bCompress) {
     var str = JSON.stringify((bCompress ? JSONC.compress(json) : json));
-    return Base64.encode(String.fromCharCode.apply(String, gzip.zip(str,{level:9})));
+    var zipped = gzip.zip(str, { level: 9 });
+    var data;
+    try {
+      data = String.fromCharCode.apply(String, zipped);
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (e instanceof RangeError) {
+        //Hit the max number of arguments for the JS engine
+        data = (function (buffer) {
+          var binary = '';
+          var bytes = new Uint8Array(buffer);
+          var len = bytes.byteLength;
+          for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+            binary += String.fromCharCode(bytes[i]);
+          }
+          return binary;
+        }(zipped));
+      } else {
+        throw (e);
+      }
+    }
+    return Base64.encode(data);
   };
   /**
    * Decompress a compressed JSON
@@ -307,9 +327,27 @@
    * @returns {Object}
    */
   JSONC.unpack = function (gzipped, bDecompress) {
-    var aArr = getArr(Base64.decode(gzipped)),
-      str = String.fromCharCode.apply(String, gzip.unzip(aArr,{level:9})),
-      json = JSON.parse(str);
+    var aArr = getArr(Base64.decode(gzipped));
+    var str, unzipped = gzip.unzip(aArr, { level: 9 });
+    try {
+      str = String.fromCharCode.apply(String, unzipped);
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (e instanceof RangeError) {
+        //Hit the max number of arguments for the JS engine
+        str = (function (buffer) {
+          var binary = '';
+          var bytes = new Uint8Array(buffer);
+          var len = bytes.byteLength;
+          for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+            binary += String.fromCharCode(bytes[i]);
+          }
+          return binary;
+        }(unzipped));
+      } else {
+        throw (e);
+      }
+    }
+    var json = JSON.parse(str);
     return bDecompress ? JSONC.decompress(json) : json;
   };
   /*

test/JSONC.js

@@ -355,6 +355,32 @@ describe('JSONC.decompress', function (){
 
       expect(retrieved).toEqual(obj);
 
+      delete window.Base64;
+      delete window.gzip;
+    });
+    it('should test decompressing a large object', function () {
+      var retrieved,
+        obj = largeTestObj.origData,
+        packed = largeTestObj.gzData;
+
+      window.gzip = {
+        unzip: function () {
+          /*
+          * need to split the array in two because PhantomJS can't even parse the full size
+          */
+          return largeTestObj.gunzippedData_0.concat(largeTestObj.gunzippedData_1);
+        }
+      };
+      window.Base64 = {
+        decode: function (str) {
+          return str;
+        }
+      };
+
+      retrieved = JSONC.unpack(packed);
+
+      expect(retrieved).toEqual(obj);
+
       delete window.Base64;
       delete window.gzip;
     });

vendor/base64.js

@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ var Base64 = {
 
   // private method for UTF-8 encoding
   _utf8_encode : function (string) {
-    string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
     var utftext = "";
 
     for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {