From 0cddb94e6d239b40320fe1121994eab12eeb56fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Paramonau <i.paramonau@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:56:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] utils: Try to fix more JSON errors with JSON5 lib

---
 lib/utils.js | 7 +++++++
 package.json | 1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/utils.js b/lib/utils.js
index 22b9476ef..e56c356f9 100644
--- a/lib/utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { cache } from './cache.js';
 import * as htmlUtils from './html-utils.js';
 import log from '../logging.js';
 import { resolve } from 'url';
+import JSON5 from 'json5';
 
 import CONFIG from '../config.loader.js';
 
@@ -343,6 +344,12 @@ export function parseJSONSource(text, decode) {
         // default parser failed. Let's try to forgive
     }
 
+    try {
+        return JSON5.parse(decode ? entities.decodeHTML(decode(text)) : entities.decodeHTML(text));
+    } catch (ex) {
+        // parser failed. Let's try to forgive more
+    }    
+
     var s = text;
     
     // replace opening ( and closing )
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6997ea426..b3519962b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
         "htmlparser2": "^7.2.0",
         "iconv-lite": "^0.6.3",
         "jslint": "^0.12.1",
+        "json5": "^2.2.3",
         "jsontoxml": "^1.0.1",
         "memcached": "2.2.2",
         "moment": "^2.30.1",