FileReader.readAsText performs automatic JSON.parse
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                 Key: CB-519
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-519
             Project: Apache Callback
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: WP7
    Affects Versions: 1.6.1
         Environment: VS.NET 2010 and WP7.1 emulator
            Reporter: Alan Neveu
            Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
            Priority: Minor


After upgrading from 1.5 I find that FileReader.readAsText takes the liberty of performing a JSON.parse if my file happens to be a stringified JSON object. While this seems like a nice addition, my app connects to an ASP.NET web service which uses Microsoft's serialization objects to serve the JSON to my app. Because of this I have had to roll my own JSON parse and stringify functions to deal with Microsoft's version of date serialization.  I am able to work with the automatic JSON.parse by checking for typeof == "object" and if that is what FileReader.readAsText has returned then I go ahead and use my own JSON.stringify and JSON.parse and go along on my way. But I thought it was odd that this automatic JSON.parse would happen in the first place, so I submit this as a bug in case someone was doing some testing/debugging and accidentally left a line of code in place that should really not be there.  I can live with it if it is intentional, but I think it would be more intuitive to not do automatic JSON operations that the function name does not indicate.

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