Implemented support for type 'string'

src/JSONNode.js

@@ -336,20 +336,20 @@ export default class JSONNode extends Component {
   }
 
   handleChangeValue (event) {
-    const value = JSONNode._getValueFromEvent(event)
+    const value = this._getValueFromEvent(event)
 
     this.props.events.onChangeValue(this.props.path, value)
   }
 
   handleClickValue (event) {
     if (event.ctrlKey && event.button === 0) { // Ctrl+Left click
-      JSONNode._openLinkIfUrl(event)
+      this._openLinkIfUrl(event)
     }
   }
 
   handleKeyDownValue (event) {
     if (event.ctrlKey && event.which === 13) { // Ctrl+Enter
-      JSONNode._openLinkIfUrl(event)
+      this._openLinkIfUrl(event)
     }
   }
 
@@ -377,8 +377,8 @@ export default class JSONNode extends Component {
    * @param event
    * @private
    */
-  static _openLinkIfUrl (event) {
-    const value = JSONNode._getValueFromEvent(event)
+  _openLinkIfUrl (event) {
+    const value = this._getValueFromEvent(event)
 
     if (isUrl(value)) {
       event.preventDefault()
@@ -388,11 +388,19 @@ export default class JSONNode extends Component {
     }
   }
 
-  static _getValueFromEvent (event) {
-    return stringConvert(unescapeHTML(getInnerText(event.target)))
+  /**
+   * Get the value of the target of an event, and convert it to it's type
+   * @param event
+   * @return {string | number | boolean | null}
+   * @private
+   */
+  _getValueFromEvent (event) {
+    const stringValue = unescapeHTML(getInnerText(event.target))
+    return this.props.data.type === 'string'
+        ? stringValue
+        : stringConvert(stringValue)
   }
 
-
   /**
    * Find the root DOM element of the JSONEditor
    * Search is done based on the CSS class 'jsoneditor'

src/Main.js

@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ function jsonToData (path, json, expand) {
   }
   else {
     return {
-      type: 'json',
+      type: 'value',
       value: json
     }
   }
@@ -383,10 +383,11 @@ function jsonToData (path, json, expand) {
  * @return {Object | Array | string | number | boolean | null} json
  */
 function dataToJson (data) {
-  if (data.type === 'array') {
+  switch (data.type) {
+    case 'array':
       return data.items.map(dataToJson)
-  }
-  else if (data.type === 'object') {
+
+    case 'object':
       const object = {}
 
       data.props.forEach(prop => {
@@ -394,9 +395,8 @@ function dataToJson (data) {
       })
 
       return object
-  }
-  else {
-    // type 'value' or 'string'
+
+    default: // type 'string' or 'value'
       return data.value
   }
 }