From c20a0eabed129a13039040af1997aca384e33177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Braydon Fuller <braydon@bitpay.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 19:32:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Check type of parsed JSON to determine it's an object and not
 a number.

---
 lib/util/js.js     |  8 +++++++-
 test/privatekey.js |  2 +-
 test/util/js.js    | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/util/js.js

diff --git a/lib/util/js.js b/lib/util/js.js
index 85c128428..331606205 100644
--- a/lib/util/js.js
+++ b/lib/util/js.js
@@ -28,9 +28,15 @@ module.exports = {
    * @return {Object|boolean} false if the argument is not a JSON string.
    */
   isValidJSON: function isValidJSON(arg) {
+    var parsed;
     try {
-      return JSON.parse(arg);
+      parsed = JSON.parse(arg);
     } catch (e) {
+      parsed = false;
+    }
+    if (typeof(parsed) === 'object') {
+      return true;
+    } else {
       return false;
     }
   },
diff --git a/test/privatekey.js b/test/privatekey.js
index 3212bd4df..dcaab92b9 100644
--- a/test/privatekey.js
+++ b/test/privatekey.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ describe('PrivateKey', function() {
     should.exist(b.bn);
   });
 
-  it('should create a privatkey from hexa string', function() {
+  it('should create a privatekey from hexa string', function() {
     var a = new PrivateKey(hex2);
     should.exist(a);
     should.exist(a.bn);
diff --git a/test/util/js.js b/test/util/js.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..197ccdf20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/util/js.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+'use strict';
+/* jshint unused: false */
+
+var should = require('chai').should();
+var expect = require('chai').expect;
+
+var bitcore = require('../..');
+var JSUtil = bitcore.util.js;
+
+describe('js utils', function() {
+
+  describe('isValidJSON', function() {
+    
+    var hexa = '8080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080808080';
+    var json = '{"key": ["value", "value2"]}';
+
+    it('does not mistake an integer as valid json object', function() {
+      var valid = JSUtil.isValidJSON(hexa);
+      valid.should.equal(false);
+    });
+
+    it('correctly validates a json object', function() {
+      var valid = JSUtil.isValidJSON(json);
+      valid.should.equal(true);
+    });
+
+  });
+
+});