Bug 130029

Summary:	Please add a way to work with JSON that doesn't depend on JavaScript
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Alexey Proskuryakov <ap>
Component:	WebCore Misc.	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Normal	CC:	bfulgham, ggaren, oliver
Priority:	P2
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified

Description Alexey Proskuryakov 2014-03-10 11:36:24 PDT

WebCrypto uses JSON as a key serialization format in a way that's not really tied to JavaScript. I had to store an ExecState pointer to perform the work, but that's somewhat ugly and unsafe.

It would help a lot if there was a way to work with JSON as a pure data container, I'm imagining something like a DOM SAX interface for parsing.

Comment 1 Geoffrey Garen 2014-03-10 13:42:44 PDT

Better to store a VM* or JSGlobalObject* than an ExecState*. ExecState* has no lifetime guarantee.