The documentation for jsexpr? states that JS-expressions use symbols as keys for hash tables, and strings for all other JSON-strings. Presumably this is to improve the efficiency of hash table lookup.
http://docs.racket-lang.org/json/index.html Carl Eastlund On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Scott Klarenbach <sc...@pointyhat.ca> wrote: > Is this a bug with the json module, or am I missing something about the > implementation? > > It seems it crashes when serializing a hashtable that has strings for > keys. Symbols work fine. > > ie, > > >> (jsexpr->string (hash "id" 1 "title" "core")) > write-json: expected argument of type <bad JSON key value> > > BUT this works: > > >> (jsexpr->string (hash 'id 1 'title "core")) > "{\"id\":1,\"title\":\"core\"}" > > -- > Talk to you soon, > > Scott Klarenbach > > PointyHat Software Corp. > www.pointyhat.ca > p 604-568-4280 > e sc...@pointyhat.ca > #308 - 55 Water St. > Vancouver, BC V6B1A1 > > _______________________________________ > To iterate is human; to recur, divine > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >
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