Hi,

from a rest call I get a JSON with a strange format:

{"DEPLOY_ATTRIBUTES":"{\n  \"dependency-type\": \"soft\"\n}","MTA_METADATA":"{\n  \"id\":...

The sub objects are enclosed with quotes and there are a lot of line break characters.
Also the quotes are escaped.
I try to translate a Python script which has no issues to handle this JSON correctly,
but I do not understand why.

Python seems to handle this with decode('utf-8')? Is there some functionality in Phobos to handle this format correctly?

Kind regards
André

On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 at 10:45:45 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from a rest call I get a JSON with a strange format:
>
> {"DEPLOY_ATTRIBUTES":"{\n  \"dependency-type\": \"soft\"\n}","MTA_METADATA":"{\n  \"id\":...
>
> The sub objects are enclosed with quotes and there are a lot of line break characters.
> Also the quotes are escaped.
> I try to translate a Python script which has no issues to handle this JSON correctly,
> but I do not understand why.
>
> Python seems to handle this with decode('utf-8')? Is there some functionality in Phobos to handle this format correctly?
>
> Kind regards
> André

OK, I found the solution. There is no magic in python. For these kinds of attributes the python code checks whether it is a string, and then tries to parse again as JSON, wired!

Kind regards
André