Trim white spaces in both Object key and value recursively

Question

How do you trim white spaces in both the keys and values in a JavaScript Object recursively?

I came across one issue in which I was trying to \"clean\" a user suppli

Answer 1

Similar to epascarello's answer. This is what I did :

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

........

public String trimWhiteSpaceAroundBoundary(String inputJson) {
    String result;
    final String regex = "\"\\s+|\\s+\"";
    final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
    final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(inputJson.trim());
    // replacing the pattern twice to cover the edge case of extra white space around ','
    result = pattern.matcher(matcher.replaceAll("\"")).replaceAll("\"");
    return result;
}

Test cases

assertEquals("\"2\"", trimWhiteSpace("\" 2 \""));
assertEquals("2", trimWhiteSpace(" 2 "));
assertEquals("{   }", trimWhiteSpace("   {   }   "));
assertEquals("\"bob\"", trimWhiteSpace("\" bob \""));
assertEquals("[\"2\",\"bob\"]", trimWhiteSpace("[\"  2  \",  \"  bob  \"]"));
assertEquals("{\"b\":\"bob\",\"c c\": 5,\"d\": true }",
              trimWhiteSpace("{\"b \": \" bob \", \"c c\": 5, \"d\": true }"));