added JSON support to require()

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Also, `Casper.mouseEvent()` will now directly trigger an error on failure instea
 - fixed [#290](https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs/issues/#290) - add a simplistic RPM spec file to make it easier to (un)install casperjs
 - fixed [`utils.betterTypeOf()`](http://casperjs.org/api.html#casper.betterTypeOf) to properly handle `undefined` and `null` values
 - fixed `Casper.die()` and `Casper.evaluateOrDie()` were not printing the error onto the console
+- added JSON support to `require()`
 - added [`Casper.sendKeys()`](http://casperjs.org/api.html#casper.sendKeys) to send native keyboard events to the element matching a given selector
 - added [`Casper.getFormValues()`](http://casperjs.org/api.html#casper.getFormValues) to check for the field values of a given form
 - added [`Tester.assertTextDoesntExist()`](http://casperjs.org/api.html#tester.assertTextDoesntExist)

bin/bootstrap.js

@@ -106,10 +106,13 @@ function patchRequire(require, requireDirs) {
             fileGuesses.push.apply(fileGuesses, [
                 testPath,
                 testPath + '.js',
+                testPath + '.json',
                 testPath + '.coffee',
                 fs.pathJoin(testPath, 'index.js'),
+                fs.pathJoin(testPath, 'index.json'),
                 fs.pathJoin(testPath, 'index.coffee'),
                 fs.pathJoin(testPath, 'lib', fs.basename(testPath) + '.js'),
+                fs.pathJoin(testPath, 'lib', fs.basename(testPath) + '.json'),
                 fs.pathJoin(testPath, 'lib', fs.basename(testPath) + '.coffee')
             ]);
         });
@@ -125,6 +128,11 @@ function patchRequire(require, requireDirs) {
         if (file in requireCache) {
             return requireCache[file].exports;
         }
+        if (/\.json/i.test(file)) {
+            var parsed = JSON.parse(fs.read(file));
+            requireCache[file] = parsed;
+            return parsed;
+        }
         var scriptCode = (function getScriptCode(file) {
             var scriptCode = fs.read(file);
             if (/\.coffee$/i.test(file)) {

tests/sample_modules/config.json

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"ok": true}

tests/suites/require.js

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 /*jshint strict:false*/
 var fs = require('fs');
 var modroot = fs.pathJoin(phantom.casperPath, 'tests', 'sample_modules');
-var jsmod, csmod;
+var jsmod, csmod, config;
 
 casper.test.comment('Javascript module loading')
 try {
@@ -20,4 +20,12 @@ try {
     casper.test.fail('require() patched version can load a coffeescript module');
 }
 
-casper.test.done(2);
+casper.test.comment('JSON module loading')
+try {
+    config = require(fs.pathJoin(modroot, 'config.json'));
+    casper.test.assertTrue(config.ok, 'require() patched version can load a json module');
+} catch (e) {
+    casper.test.fail('require() patched version can load a json module');
+}
+
+casper.test.done(3);