Introducing new static methods to set the recursion depth limit

Author: coheigea

src/main/java/org/codehaus/jettison/json/JSONObject.java

@@ -1346,6 +1346,16 @@ static String valueToString(Object value, int indentFactor, int indent, boolean
      * value is 500
      * @param newRecursionDepthLimit the new recursion depth limit to set
      */
+    public static void setGlobalRecursionDepthLimit(int newRecursionDepthLimit) {
+        RECURSION_DEPTH_LIMIT = newRecursionDepthLimit;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set the new recursion depth limit to prevent stack overflow issues on deeply nested structures. The default
+     * value is 500
+     * @param newRecursionDepthLimit the new recursion depth limit to set
+     */
+    @Deprecated
     public void setRecursionDepthLimit(int newRecursionDepthLimit) {
         RECURSION_DEPTH_LIMIT = newRecursionDepthLimit;
     }
@@ -1355,6 +1365,16 @@ public void setRecursionDepthLimit(int newRecursionDepthLimit) {
      * value is 500
      * @return the recursion depth limit
      */
+    public static int getGlobalRecursionDepthLimit() {
+        return RECURSION_DEPTH_LIMIT;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the new recursion depth limit to prevent stack overflow issues on deeply nested structures. The default
+     * value is 500
+     * @return the recursion depth limit
+     */
+    @Deprecated
     public int getRecursionDepthLimit() {
         return RECURSION_DEPTH_LIMIT;
     }

src/test/java/org/codehaus/jettison/json/JSONArrayTest.java

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public void testInfiniteLoop2() {
     }
 
     public void testIssue52() throws JSONException {
-        new JSONObject().setRecursionDepthLimit(10);
+        JSONObject.setGlobalRecursionDepthLimit(10);
         new JSONArray("[{}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {a:10}]");
     }