Merge pull request #1999 from s1341/fix_json_is_bad

strip off trailing commas

src/node/utils/Settings.js

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * The Settings Modul reads the settings out of settings.json and provides 
+ * The Settings Modul reads the settings out of settings.json and provides
  * this information to the other modules
  */
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ var os = require("os");
 var path = require('path');
 var argv = require('./Cli').argv;
 var npm = require("npm/lib/npm.js");
-var vm = require('vm');
+var jsonminify = require("jsonminify");
 var log4js = require("log4js");
 var randomString = require('ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/pad_utils').randomString;
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ exports.faviconTimeslider = "../../" + exports.favicon;
  * The IP ep-lite should listen to
  */
 exports.ip = "0.0.0.0";
-  
+
 /**
  * The Port ep-lite should listen to
  */
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ exports.reloadSettings = function reloadSettings() {
   var settings;
   try {
     if(settingsStr) {
-      settings = vm.runInContext('exports = '+settingsStr, vm.createContext(), "settings.json");
-      settings = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(settings)); // fix objects having constructors of other vm.context
+      settingsStr = jsonminify(settingsStr).replace(",]","]").replace(",}","}");
+      settings = JSON.parse(settingsStr);
     }
   }catch(e){
     console.error('There was an error processing your settings.json file: '+e.message);
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ exports.reloadSettings = function reloadSettings() {
       console.warn("Unknown Setting: '" + i + "'. This setting doesn't exist or it was removed");
     }
   }
-  
+
   log4js.configure(exports.logconfig);//Configure the logging appenders
   log4js.setGlobalLogLevel(exports.loglevel);//set loglevel
   log4js.replaceConsole();

src/package.json

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "keywords"       : ["etherpad", "realtime", "collaborative", "editor"],
   "author"         : "Peter 'Pita' Martischka <petermartischka@googlemail.com> - Primary Technology Ltd",
   "contributors"   : [
-                      { "name": "John McLear" }, 
+                      { "name": "John McLear" },
                       { "name": "Hans Pinckaers" },
                       { "name": "Robin Buse" },
                       { "name": "Marcel Klehr" }
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
                       "languages4translatewiki" : "0.1.3",
                       "swagger-node-express"    : "1.2.3",
                       "channels"                : "0.0.x",
+                      "jsonminify"              : "0.2.2",
                       "measured"                : "0.1.3"
                      },
   "bin":             { "etherpad-lite": "./node/server.js" },
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@
                      },
   "engines"        : { "node" : ">=0.6.3",
                        "npm"  : ">=1.0"
-                     }, 
+                     },
   "repository"     : { "type" : "git",
                        "url" : "http://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite.git"
                      },

src/static/js/admin/settings.js

@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ $(document).ready(function () {
 
 function isJSONClean(data){
   var cleanSettings = JSON.minify(data);
+  // this is a bit naive. In theory some key/value might contain the sequences ',]' or ',}'
+  cleanSettings = cleanSettings.replace(",]","]").replace(",}","}");
   try{
     var response = jQuery.parseJSON(cleanSettings);
   }