From ca6721c74e03df2c1bba7bce88ec787e9384aad4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Pitt <c.james.pitt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:04:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Attempt to parse the JSON to see if it is already well formed

---
 core/lib/parameter_hunter.js | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/lib/parameter_hunter.js b/core/lib/parameter_hunter.js
index b9c64f06f..3e8d760e6 100644
--- a/core/lib/parameter_hunter.js
+++ b/core/lib/parameter_hunter.js
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ var parameter_hunter = function () {
     var values = [];
     var wrapper;
 
+    // attempt to parse the data incase it is already well formed JSON
+    try {
+      paramStringWellFormed = JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(pString));
+      return paramStringWellFormed;
+    } catch(err) {
+      console.log('Not valid JSON - will attempt to parse manually...');
+    }
+
     //replace all escaped double-quotes with escaped unicode
     paramString = paramString.replace(/\\"/g, '\\u0022');