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/**
+ * @author Ed Spencer
+ * @class Ext.data.reader.Json
+ * @extends Ext.data.reader.Reader
+ * 
+ * <p>The JSON Reader is used by a Proxy to read a server response that is sent back in JSON format. This usually
+ * happens as a result of loading a Store - for example we might create something like this:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+Ext.define('User', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: ['id', 'name', 'email']
+});
+
+var store = new Ext.data.Store({
+    model: 'User',
+    proxy: {
+        type: 'ajax',
+        url : 'users.json',
+        reader: {
+            type: 'json'
+        }
+    }
+});
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>The example above creates a 'User' model. Models are explained in the {@link Ext.data.Model Model} docs if you're
+ * not already familiar with them.</p>
+ * 
+ * <p>We created the simplest type of JSON Reader possible by simply telling our {@link Ext.data.Store Store}'s 
+ * {@link Ext.data.proxy.Proxy Proxy} that we want a JSON Reader. The Store automatically passes the configured model to the
+ * Store, so it is as if we passed this instead:
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+reader: {
+    type : 'json',
+    model: 'User'
+}
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>The reader we set up is ready to read data from our server - at the moment it will accept a response like this:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+[
+    {
+        "id": 1,
+        "name": "Ed Spencer",
+        "email": "ed@sencha.com"
+    },
+    {
+        "id": 2,
+        "name": "Abe Elias",
+        "email": "abe@sencha.com"
+    }
+]
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p><u>Reading other JSON formats</u></p>
+ * 
+ * <p>If you already have your JSON format defined and it doesn't look quite like what we have above, you can usually
+ * pass JsonReader a couple of configuration options to make it parse your format. For example, we can use the 
+ * {@link #root} configuration to parse data that comes back like this:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+{
+    "users": [
+       {
+           "id": 1,
+           "name": "Ed Spencer",
+           "email": "ed@sencha.com"
+       },
+       {
+           "id": 2,
+           "name": "Abe Elias",
+           "email": "abe@sencha.com"
+       }
+    ]
+}
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>To parse this we just pass in a {@link #root} configuration that matches the 'users' above:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+reader: {
+    type: 'json',
+    root: 'users'
+}
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>Sometimes the JSON structure is even more complicated. Document databases like CouchDB often provide metadata
+ * around each record inside a nested structure like this:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+{
+    "total": 122,
+    "offset": 0,
+    "users": [
+        {
+            "id": "ed-spencer-1",
+            "value": 1,
+            "user": {
+                "id": 1,
+                "name": "Ed Spencer",
+                "email": "ed@sencha.com"
+            }
+        }
+    ]
+}
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>In the case above the record data is nested an additional level inside the "users" array as each "user" item has
+ * additional metadata surrounding it ('id' and 'value' in this case). To parse data out of each "user" item in the 
+ * JSON above we need to specify the {@link #record} configuration like this:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+reader: {
+    type  : 'json',
+    root  : 'users',
+    record: 'user'
+}
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p><u>Response metadata</u></p>
+ * 
+ * <p>The server can return additional data in its response, such as the {@link #totalProperty total number of records} 
+ * and the {@link #successProperty success status of the response}. These are typically included in the JSON response
+ * like this:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+{
+    "total": 100,
+    "success": true,
+    "users": [
+        {
+            "id": 1,
+            "name": "Ed Spencer",
+            "email": "ed@sencha.com"
+        }
+    ]
+}
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>If these properties are present in the JSON response they can be parsed out by the JsonReader and used by the
+ * Store that loaded it. We can set up the names of these properties by specifying a final pair of configuration 
+ * options:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+reader: {
+    type : 'json',
+    root : 'users',
+    totalProperty  : 'total',
+    successProperty: 'success'
+}
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>These final options are not necessary to make the Reader work, but can be useful when the server needs to report
+ * an error or if it needs to indicate that there is a lot of data available of which only a subset is currently being
+ * returned.</p>
+ */
+Ext.define('Ext.data.reader.Json', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.reader.Reader',
+    alternateClassName: 'Ext.data.JsonReader',
+    alias : 'reader.json',
+    
+    root: '',
+    
+    /**
+     * @cfg {String} record The optional location within the JSON response that the record data itself can be found at.
+     * See the JsonReader intro docs for more details. This is not often needed and defaults to undefined.
+     */
+    
+    /**
+     * @cfg {Boolean} useSimpleAccessors True to ensure that field names/mappings are treated as literals when
+     * reading values. Defalts to <tt>false</tt>.
+     * For example, by default, using the mapping "foo.bar.baz" will try and read a property foo from the root, then a property bar
+     * from foo, then a property baz from bar. Setting the simple accessors to true will read the property with the name 
+     * "foo.bar.baz" direct from the root object.
+     */
+    useSimpleAccessors: false,
+    
+    /**
+     * Reads a JSON object and returns a ResultSet. Uses the internal getTotal and getSuccess extractors to
+     * retrieve meta data from the response, and extractData to turn the JSON data into model instances.
+     * @param {Object} data The raw JSON data
+     * @return {Ext.data.ResultSet} A ResultSet containing model instances and meta data about the results
+     */
+    readRecords: function(data) {
+        //this has to be before the call to super because we use the meta data in the superclass readRecords
+        if (data.metaData) {
+            this.onMetaChange(data.metaData);
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * DEPRECATED - will be removed in Ext JS 5.0. This is just a copy of this.rawData - use that instead
+         * @property jsonData
+         * @type Mixed
+         */
+        this.jsonData = data;
+        return this.callParent([data]);
+    },
+
+    //inherit docs
+    getResponseData: function(response) {
+        try {
+            var data = Ext.decode(response.responseText);
+        }
+        catch (ex) {
+            Ext.Error.raise({
+                response: response,
+                json: response.responseText,
+                parseError: ex,
+                msg: 'Unable to parse the JSON returned by the server: ' + ex.toString()
+            });
+        }
+        //<debug>
+        if (!data) {
+            Ext.Error.raise('JSON object not found');
+        }
+        //</debug>
+
+        return data;
+    },
+
+    //inherit docs
+    buildExtractors : function() {
+        var me = this;
+        
+        me.callParent(arguments);
+
+        if (me.root) {
+            me.getRoot = me.createAccessor(me.root);
+        } else {
+            me.getRoot = function(root) {
+                return root;
+            };
+        }
+    },
+    
+    /**
+     * @private
+     * We're just preparing the data for the superclass by pulling out the record objects we want. If a {@link #record}
+     * was specified we have to pull those out of the larger JSON object, which is most of what this function is doing
+     * @param {Object} root The JSON root node
+     * @return {Array} The records
+     */
+    extractData: function(root) {
+        var recordName = this.record,
+            data = [],
+            length, i;
+        
+        if (recordName) {
+            length = root.length;
+            
+            for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+                data[i] = root[i][recordName];
+            }
+        } else {
+            data = root;
+        }
+        return this.callParent([data]);
+    },
+
+    /**
+     * @private
+     * Returns an accessor function for the given property string. Gives support for properties such as the following:
+     * 'someProperty'
+     * 'some.property'
+     * 'some["property"]'
+     * This is used by buildExtractors to create optimized extractor functions when casting raw data into model instances.
+     */
+    createAccessor: function() {
+        var re = /[\[\.]/;
+        
+        return function(expr) {
+            if (Ext.isEmpty(expr)) {
+                return Ext.emptyFn;
+            }
+            if (Ext.isFunction(expr)) {
+                return expr;
+            }
+            if (this.useSimpleAccessors !== true) {
+                var i = String(expr).search(re);
+                if (i >= 0) {
+                    return Ext.functionFactory('obj', 'return obj' + (i > 0 ? '.' : '') + expr);
+                }
+            }
+            return function(obj) {
+                return obj[expr];
+            };
+        };
+    }()
+});
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