Make sure leading whitespace is trimmed for parseJSON. Fixes #6031.

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 02d8269..9fa311d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -480,6 +480,9 @@ jQuery.extend({
                if ( typeof data !== "string" || !data ) {
                        return null;
                }
+
+               // Make sure leading/trailing whitespace is removed (IE can't handle it)
+               data = jQuery.trim( data );
                
                // Make sure the incoming data is actual JSON
                // Logic borrowed from http://json.org/json2.js

diff --git a/test/unit/core.js b/test/unit/core.js
index 4576ab8..d8aba16 100644 (file)
--- a/test/unit/core.js
+++ b/test/unit/core.js
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ test("jQuery.proxy", function(){
 });
 
 test("jQuery.parseJSON", function(){
-       expect(7);
+       expect(8);
        
        equals( jQuery.parseJSON(), null, "Nothing in, null out." );
        equals( jQuery.parseJSON( null ), null, "Nothing in, null out." );
@@ -815,6 +815,8 @@ test("jQuery.parseJSON", function(){
        
        same( jQuery.parseJSON("{}"), {}, "Plain object parsing." );
        same( jQuery.parseJSON('{"test":1}'), {"test":1}, "Plain object parsing." );
+
+       same( jQuery.parseJSON('\n{"test":1}'), {"test":1}, "Make sure leading whitespaces are handled." );
        
        try {
                jQuery.parseJSON("{a:1}");
@@ -829,4 +831,4 @@ test("jQuery.parseJSON", function(){
        } catch( e ) {
                ok( true, "Test malformed JSON string." );
        }
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+});