Adding exception handling for JSON.parse

jasonmoo · Mar 12, 2016 · 49abf10 · 49abf10
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commit 49abf10
Showing 1 changed file with 10 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/example/index.js b/example/index.js
@@ -48,9 +48,16 @@ var child_process = require('child_process'),
 		}
 		// check for newline ascii char 10
 		if (data.length && data[data.length-1] == 10) {
-			var output = JSON.parse(data.toString('UTF-8'));
-			data = null;
-			done(null, output);
+			try {
+				var output = JSON.parse(data.toString('UTF-8'));
+				data = null;
+				done(null, output);
+			} catch(err) {
+				done(JSON.stringify({
+					"error": err.toString('UTF-8'),
+					"payload": data.toString('UTF-8')
+				}));
+			}
 		};
 	});
 })();