JsonObject WriteFile

[Andy Whitcombe]

Hi,

Having a complete mind blank on something....

Started using Progress.Json.ObjectModel.*. earlier today...

Example as follows

Code

USING Progress.Json.ObjectModel.*.

DEFINE VARIABLE oJson AS JsonObject NO-UNDO.
DEFINE VARIABLE oData AS JsonObject NO-UNDO.

oJson = NEW JsonObject().

oData = NEW JsonObject().
oData:ADD("url","BBC - Home").
oJson:ADD("data", oData).
oJson:WriteFile("c:\temp\test2.json", TRUE,"UTF-8").

Output is

{
"data": {
"url": "http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/"
}
}

I don't want the \ before each of the / in my file.

I have tried a number of different ways; I am sort of hoping someone will point out the really obvious flaw

Thanks
Andy

 

[Andy Whitcombe]

In my above example, when I added the url it was


not "BBC - Home" as is being displayed above

 

[LarryD]

That is an escape character for the forward slash,, so you need to leave it. It is sometimes known as 'toothpick syndrome'

An explanation is here.

 

[Andy Whitcombe]

Thanks @LarryD

I had assumed as much, makes sense to do so.

My issue is the documentation set I am working with, shows the Request Body as a JSON containing an URL with no escapes; It could simply be an error in the doc set, or it could be that is what they want, hence trying to understand if I can achieve.

I can only clarify next Wednesday after the long bank holiday weekend and associated holidays...

With that in mind, I thought I would spend a short amount of time looking at both options.