From fbea9e58d2e5a18f0c7d9f8e64890ac6b7bc0984 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim Kiryukhin <vkiryukhin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:52:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] native JSON support is added

---
 vkbeautify.js | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vkbeautify.js b/vkbeautify.js
index fb67919..2b4f9c2 100644
--- a/vkbeautify.js
+++ b/vkbeautify.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
 * vkBeautify - javascript plugin to pretty-print or minify text in XML, JSON and CSS formats.
 *  
-* Version - 0.97.00.beta 
+* Version - 0.98.00.beta 
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Vadim Kiryukhin
 * vkiryukhin @ gmail.com
 * http://www.eslinstructor.net/vkbeautify/
@@ -152,6 +152,21 @@ vkbeautify.prototype.xml = function(text,step) {
 
 vkbeautify.prototype.json = function(text,step) {
 
+    // Attempt to process using the native JSON first
+    if ( window.JSON && window.JSON.stringify ) {
+		if ( typeof text === "string" ) {
+			return JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(text), null, step);
+		}
+		if ( typeof text === "object" ) {
+			return JSON.stringify(text, null, step);
+		}
+		return null;
+    }
+
+	// there is no native JSON object, so let's use regexp
+	
+	if ( typeof text !== "string" || !text )  return null;
+
 	var ar = this.jsonmin(text).replace(/\{/g,"~::~{~::~")
 								.replace(/\[/g,"[~::~")
 								.replace(/\}/g,"~::~}")