jbe/bsw@0: --[[--
jbe@285: json_string =  -- JavaScript code
jbe/bsw@0: encode.json(
jbe@285:   value        -- nil, false, true, a number, a string, or json.array{...} or json.object{...}
jbe/bsw@0: )
jbe/bsw@0: 
jbe@285: This function encodes any native datatype or table structure to JavaScript object notation (JSON). In order to distinguish between the empty array and the empty object, use json.array{} and json.object{} respectively.
jbe@10: 
jbe@285: The return value of this function is additionally escaped in such way that it can be safely included in inline scripts both in HTML and XHTML (within CDATA section).
jbe@223: 
jbe/bsw@0: --]]--
jbe/bsw@0: 
jbe/bsw@0: function encode.json(obj)
jbe@293:   local str = json.export(obj)
jbe@285:   str = string.gsub(str, "</", "<\\/")
jbe@285:   str = string.gsub(str, "<!%[CDATA%[", "\\u003c![CDATA[")
jbe@285:   str = string.gsub(str, "]]>", "]]\\u003e")
jbe@285:   return str
jbe/bsw@0: end