urlserializer.js

This is the script which used on 10minutemail.com for temporary email.

// {{{ HTML_AJAX_Serialize_Urlencoded
/**
 * URL-encoding serializer
 *
 * This class can be used to serialize and unserialize data in a
 * format compatible with PHP's handling of HTTP query strings.
 * Due to limitations of the format, all input is serialized as an
 * array or a string. See examples/serialize.url.examples.php
 *
 * @version	0.0.1
 * @copyright	2005 Arpad Ray <[e-mail]>
 * @license	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php  LGPL
 *
 * See Main.js for Author/license details
 */
function HTML_AJAX_Serialize_Urlencoded() {}
HTML_AJAX_Serialize_Urlencoded.prototype = {
	contentType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
	base: '_HTML_AJAX',
	_keys: [],
	error: false,
	message: "",
	cont: "",
	// {{{ serialize
	/**
	 *  Serializes a variable
	 *
	 *  @param	mixed  inp the variable to serialize
	 *  @return	string   a string representation of the input, 
	 *					  which can be reconstructed by unserialize()
	 */
	serialize: function(input, _internal) {
		if (typeof input == 'undefined') {
			return '';
		}
		if (!_internal) {
			this._keys = [];
		}
		var ret = '', first = true;
		for (i = 0; i < this._keys.length; i++) {
			ret += (first ? HTML_AJAX_Util.encodeUrl(this._keys[i]) : '[' + HTML_AJAX_Util.encodeUrl(this._keys[i]) + ']');
			first = false;
		}
		ret += '=';
		switch (HTML_AJAX_Util.getType(input)) {
			case 'string': 
			case 'number':
				ret += HTML_AJAX_Util.encodeUrl(input.toString());
				break;
			case 'boolean':
				ret += (input ? '1' : '0');
				break;
			case 'array':
			case 'object':
				ret = '';
				for (i in input) {
					this._keys.push(i);
					ret += this.serialize(input[i], true) + '&';
					this._keys.pop();
				}
				ret = ret.substr(0, ret.length - 1);
		}
		return ret;
	},
	// }}}
	// {{{ unserialize
	/**
	 *  Reconstructs a serialized variable
	 *
	 *  @param	string inp the string to reconstruct
	 *  @return	array an array containing the variable represented by the input string, or void on failure
	 */
	unserialize: function(input) {
		if (!input.length || input.length == 0) {
			// null
			return;
		}
		if (!/^(\w+(\[[^\[\]]*\])*=[^&]*(&|$))+$/.test(input)) {
			this.raiseError("invalidly formed input", input);
			return;
		}
		input = input.split("&");
		var pos, key, keys, val, _HTML_AJAX = [];
		if (input.length == 1) {
			return HTML_AJAX_Util.decodeUrl(input[0].substr(this.base.length + 1));
		}
		for (var i in input) {
			pos = input[i].indexOf("=");
			if (pos < 1 || input[i].length - pos - 1 < 1) {
				this.raiseError("input is too short", input[i]);
				return;
			}
			key = HTML_AJAX_Util.decodeUrl(input[i].substr(0, pos));
			val = HTML_AJAX_Util.decodeUrl(input[i].substr(pos + 1));
			key = key.replace(/\[((\d*\D+)+)\]/g, '["$1"]');
			keys = key.split(']');
			for (j in keys) {
				if (!keys[j].length || keys[j].length == 0) {
					continue;
				}
				try {
					if (eval('typeof ' + keys[j] + ']') == 'undefined') {
						var ev = keys[j] + ']=[];';
						eval(ev);
					}
				} catch (e) {
					this.raiseError("error evaluating key", ev);
					return; 
				}
			}
			try {
				eval(key + '="' + val + '";');
			} catch (e) {
				this.raiseError("error evaluating value", input);
				return; 
			}
		}
		return _HTML_AJAX;
	},
	// }}}
	// {{{ getError
	/**
	*  Gets the last error message
	*
	*  @return	string   the last error message from unserialize()
	*/	
	getError: function() {
		return this.message + "\n" + this.cont;
	},
	// }}}
	// {{{ raiseError
	/**
	*  Raises an eror (called by unserialize().)
	*
	*  @param	string	message	the error message
	*  @param	string	cont	   the remaining unserialized content
	*/	
	raiseError: function(message, cont) {
		this.error = 1;
		this.message = message;
		this.cont = cont;
	}
	// }}}
}
// }}}