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

To my knowledge, there are no serialization libraries that persist functions - in any language. Serialization is what one does to preserve data. Compilation is what one does to preserve functions.