Thanks, David. Unfortunately, I get errors that net.liftweb.json does not exist. I imagine this is a configuration problem with my pom.xml, which is here: http://gist.github.com/199860. Could you or someone else conversant in Maven give me some tips to how to make sure I get lift-json?
Thanks, Peter On Oct 2, 2:26 pm, David Pollak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/5ffe64492... > > [2]http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/msg/c0103375623f788f > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > Beginning Scalahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
