Peter, I'd suggest using the stuff in lift-json. It's a much faster, richer way to use JSON.
Thanks, David On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Peter Robinett <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > Building off of a previous thread[1], I'm trying to parse a POST > request that contains JSON data. Specifically, I expect a JSON array > of JSON objects representing Packet model data and want to have a List > [Packet] at the end. > > I am trying the following: > val packets = for { > JSONPackets <- req.param("packets") > packet <- JSONParser.parse(JSONPackets) > nodeId <- packet.param("node") > node <- nodeId.toLong > } yield { > val packet = Packet.create.node(node) > packet.save > packet > } > > The problem is that JSONParser.parse returns a List[Any], so packet is > of type Any. I can try to convert packet to a Map with > packet.asInstanceOf[Map[String, String]], but this seems to just push > my type problems to the next line of code. I'm having a hard time > getting to the point where I have the Map[String, String] from which I > know I can extract values to create Packets, so I would appreciate > suggestions on how to do this. > > This all seems quite complicated and I wonder if I'm missing an easier > way to do this. Is JSONParse the way to go, or should I switch to > Joni's lift-json stuff? I'm using 1.1-M5 but would be willing to > switch to 1.1-SNAPSHOT... > > Thanks for your help. > > Peter Robinett > > [1] > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/5ffe64492b0c19f2/c65424467bc99bbb > [2] http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/msg/c0103375623f788f > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
