Refactor #5786 for backwards compatibility

core/modules/wiki.js

@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ exports.getTiddlerAsJson = function(title) {
 
 /*
 Options:
-spaces: number of spaces
+spaces: number of spaces. The special value -1 results in a line break in between each tiddler
 escapeUnsafeScriptCharacters: true to force escaping of characters that cannot be embedded in HTML
 */
 exports.getTiddlersAsJson = function(filter,options) {
@@ -710,21 +710,26 @@ exports.getTiddlersAsJson = function(filter,options) {
 	if(typeof options === "string") {
 		options = {spaces: options};
 	}
-	var tiddlers = this.filterTiddlers(filter),
+	var titles = this.filterTiddlers(filter),
 		spaces = (options.spaces === undefined) ? $tw.config.preferences.jsonSpaces : options.spaces,
-		jsonLines = [],
-		t,fields,tiddler;
-	for(t=0;t<tiddlers.length; t++) {
-		tiddler = this.getTiddler(tiddlers[t]);
+		data = [],
+		t;
+	for(t=0;t<titles.length; t++) {
+		var tiddler = this.getTiddler(titles[t]);
 		if(tiddler) {
-			fields = new Object();
-			for(var field in tiddler.fields) {
-				fields[field] = tiddler.getFieldString(field);
-			}
-			jsonLines.push(JSON.stringify(fields,null,spaces));
+			data.push(tiddler.getFieldStrings());
 		}
 	}
-	var json = "[\n" + jsonLines.join(",\n") + "\n]";
+	var json;
+	if(spaces === -1) {
+		var jsonLines = [];
+		for(t=0;t<data.length; t++) {
+			jsonLines.push(JSON.stringify(data[t]));
+		}
+		json = "[\n" + jsonLines.join(",\n") + "\n]";
+	} else {
+		json = JSON.stringify(data,null,spaces);
+	}
 	if(options.escapeUnsafeScriptCharacters) {
 		function escapeUnsafeChars(unsafeChar) {
 			return {

core/templates/store.area.template.html.tid

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ title: $:/core/templates/store.area.template.html
     <$list filter="[[storeAreaFormat]is[variable]getvariable[]else[json]match[json]]">
         <!-- New-style JSON store area, with an old-style store area for compatibility with v5.1.x tooling -->
         `<script class="tiddlywiki-tiddler-store" type="application/json">`
-            <$macrocall $name="jsontiddlers" filter=<<saveTiddlerFilter>> escapeUnsafeScriptCharacters="yes" $output="text/raw"/>
+            <$macrocall $name="jsontiddlers" filter=<<saveTiddlerFilter>> spaces="-1" escapeUnsafeScriptCharacters="yes" $output="text/raw"/>
         `</script>`
         `<div id="storeArea" style="display:none;">`
         `</div>`

editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/macros/JsonTiddlersMacro.tid

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 created: 20150221152226000
-modified: 20200204135513721
+modified: 20210613140528007
 tags: Macros [[Core Macros]]
 title: jsontiddlers Macro
 type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ An example can be seen in the [[template tiddler for JSON exports|$:/core/templa
 ;filter
 : A [[filter|Filters]] selecting which tiddlers to include
 ;spaces
-: An optional number of spaces to use for formatting the JSON. Defaults to 4, with blank or zero resulting in packed JSON with no formatting spaces
+: An optional number of spaces to use for formatting the JSON. Defaults to 4, with blank or zero resulting in packed JSON with no formatting spaces. <<.from-version "5.2.0">> The special value -1 results in a line break in between each tiddler