base64json

base64json

Stringify and parse JSON data as Base64.

base64json.stringify() and base64json.parse() work as you'd expect the native JSON methods to, however the input or output will be Base64.

Use with caution — this doesn't validate JSON, so when using base64json.parse() you have to know that the encoded string is actually JSON.

Under the hood, base64json uses buffer and JSON3 (see Changes from JSON2 and Date Serialization).

Installation

$ npm install --save base64json

const base64json = require('base64json');

Usage

See test.js and run npm test to try the following examples.

stringify

let encoded = base64json.stringify({ 'hello':'world' }, null, 2);
// → "ewogICJoZWxsbyI6ICJ3b3JsZCIKfQ=="

parse

let decoded = base64json.parse('ewogICJoZWxsbyI6ICJ3b3JsZCIKfQ==');
// → { "hello":"world" }
// → decoded.hello === 'world'

Motivation

It could be argued this module doesn't need to exist, and I'd probably agree with you — Base64 isn't the most efficient way to store JSON.

While working with JSON files pulled from the Repository Contents endpoint of the GitHub API, I needed a quicker way of stringifying and parsing that content response. This module only exists because I didn't want to keep doing this:

let encoded = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ 'hello':'world' }), 'ascii').toString('base64');
let decoded = JSON.parse(Buffer.from('eyJoZWxsbyI6IndvcmxkIn0=', 'base64').toString('ascii'));

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2016 John Flesch.

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