Hi Farrukh

Thanks: that's a good suggestion, but I need to get it into JSON before it 
leaves the server, so that technique won't work for me.

Liz

On 15 Jul 2011, at 15:55, Farrukh Ijaz wrote:

> Hi Liz,
> 
> That's a common issue. Suppose you receive the JSON mentioned below, once you 
> get the value of data attribute which is a JSON object in string format, 
> evaluate it using eval() method of javascript and it will be converted to 
> JSON.
> 
> Farrukh
> 
> Sent from my iPad 2
> 
> On 2011-07-15, at 3:58 PM, Elizabeth Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Pascal
>> 
>> Sorry, I didn't explain the problem clearly.  I am doing that already. The 
>> problem is that it comes as a string in my JSON output, not as an object. 
>> 
>> Liz
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 15 Jul 2011, at 12:39, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think the best way would be to transform the XML to a Java object and 
>>> transform that object back to JSON.
>>> 
>>>> I am building an ERRest application (read only), and am having a problem 
>>>> with one field.  This field holds an xml string, which I need to embed 
>>>> into the output from show and index actions; it will be consumed as json 
>>>> (mainly; possibly only).
>>>> 
>>>> For example, I would like to receive:
>>>> 
>>>> {"name" : "A Record", "data" : { "fieldA" : "valueA", "fieldB" : "valueB" 
>>>> } }
>>>> 
>>>> where the data attribute comes from:
>>>> 
>>>> <SomeElement FieldA="valueA"><FieldB>valueB</FieldB></SomeElement>
>>>> 
>>>> Or something similar to that.  I can use net.sf.json to do the conversion 
>>>> directly, which produces satisfactory strings, but that doesn't cope with 
>>>> the XML output format case, and I can't figure out how to pass it into my 
>>>> JSON output.  If I do that with a String field, then obviously it is 
>>>> output as a string value, not as a JSON object, which isn't what I want.
>>>> 
>>>> In short, the XML is a moderately complex object, which I need to output 
>>>> as an object in the JSON format.
>>>> 
>>>> All ideas appreciated.
>>>> 
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