Deterministic JSON Stringify

[anvilresearch]

Deterministic JSON Stringify

[dmitrizagidulin]

That's a really good idea. (i'd vote for json-stable-stringify)

[christiansmith]

I don't doubt there are cases where this has been a problem, and have often wondered if we'd have to squash bugs caused thusly. In practice, it hasn't bitten me personally.

One reason for this may be the way modinha and json-document schemas are traversed to read/copy data when initializing. That would minimize the sort of property reordering you're talking about. In fact, it may be a deterministic function on it's own.

I could see such schemes causing problems interoperating with JSON data stringified in the "usual" way.

Just for posterity, can you point to a concrete case or two where JSON.stringify() over the same state has resulted in two different values?

[EternalDeiwos]

@christiansmith take a look at:

https://github.com/anvilresearch/jose/blob/master/test/jose/JWDSpec.js#L24-L40

Swap lines 34 and 35 and watch the world burn.