In my client/server web app, I am generating large JSON strings (using JSON.NET JToken classes in C# web services) which I pass via AJAX Get requests to the client.
I would like to be able to define certain properties in the ES5 style: prop: { value: '1', enumerable: false, writable: true }, but there's a hitch.
First, JSON.parse() simply interprets the 'enumerable' and 'writable' properties as generic properties on a generic JavaScript object. This is probably expected and desirable behavior, but is the a comparable method to 'parse' the JSON with respect to new ES5 property attributes?
Second, Object.create() works, but it has some limitations. For example,
//Native works
var prop = Object.create(Object.prototype, { prop: { value: '1', enumerable: false, writable: true } });
//prop === "1"
//Parse works
var prop = Object.create(Object.prototype, JSON.parse({ "prop": { "value": '1', "enumerable": false, "writable": true } });
//prop === "1"
//Parse fails
var prop = Object.create(Object.prototype, JSON.parse({ "prop": { "value": '1', "enumerable": "false", "writable": "true" } });
// prop === JSON.parse({ "prop": { "value": '1', "enumerable": "false", "writable": "true" } })
The problem here, of course, is that "true" !== true, which instructs Object.create() to return the same object as JSON.parse(). Further, either because of the truthy evaluation of a particular prop attribute OR because I'm attempting to create particularly large objects, Object.create() seems to be quite fragile.
Is there a better way to "parse" these objects in a way that respects the ES5 prop attributes?
