Is there any possibility to have JSON.stringify preserve functions?

Question

Take this object:

x = {
 \"key1\": \"xxx\",
 \"key2\": function(){return this.key1}
}

If I do this:

y = JSON.parse( JSON.st         


        

Answer 1

The naughty but effective way would be to simply:

Function.prototype.toJSON = function() { return this.toString(); }

Though your real problem (aside from modifying the prototype of Function) would be deserialization without the use of eval.