Interim changes supporting v1.3.0.

src/utils/syntax-error-ex.js

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+/**
+Definition of the SyntaxErrorEx class.
+@module syntax-error-ex.js
+*/
+
+(function() {
+
+
+  /**
+  Represents a SyntaxError exception with line and column info.
+  Collect syntax error information from the provided exception object. The
+  JavaScript `SyntaxError` exception isn't interpreted uniformly across environ-
+  ments, so we first check for a .lineNumber and .columnNumber and, if that's
+  not present, fall back to the JSONLint library, which provides that info.
+  See: http://stackoverflow.com/q/13323356
+  @class SyntaxErrorEx
+  */
+
+  module.exports = function SyntaxErrorEx( ex, rawData ) {
+
+    var lineNum = null, colNum = null;
+    if( ex.lineNumber !== undefined && ex.lineNumber !== null ) {
+      lineNum = ex.lineNumber;
+    }
+    if( ex.columnNumber !== undefined && ex.columnNumber !== null ) {
+      colNum = ex.columnNumber;
+    }
+    if( lineNum === null || colNum === null ) {
+      var JSONLint = require('json-lint');
+      var lint = JSONLint( rawData, { comments: false } );
+      if( lineNum === null ) lineNum = (lint.error ? lint.line : '???');
+      if( colNum === null ) colNum = (lint.error ? lint.character : '???');
+    }
+    this.line = lineNum;
+    this.col = colNum;
+
+  };
+
+
+}());