JavaScript error opening patron search form

[Galen Charlton]

Opening the patron search form in the staff client results in the following error being displayed:

  "\npatron/search_form.xul\nSyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character\n and such"

This stems from the patch for OpenSRF bug 1316245, which replaces the JSON parsing routines with the native JSON.parse() However, JSON.parse() is stricter, and throws an exception if it's given an undefined value as its argument.

Evergreen master
OpenSRF

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

A patch is available at the tip of the collab/gmcharlt/lp1359934_accommodate_stricter_json2js branch in the working/Evergreen repository:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/collab/gmcharlt/lp1359934_accommodate_stricter_json2js

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

Note that the patch is assuming that we are choosing to run with JSON2js's new-found strictness. An alternative would be to change JSON2js in OpenSRF to restore the previous behavior when passed an undefined value.

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Patch works to resolve the error I found with patron search in XUL client.

Signed off and pushed to master.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

Backported to rel_2_6 and rel_2_5.