That should work. What key filter are you using? Are you not allowing keys in
from the nested dictionary?
On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Elizabeth Lynch wrote:
> Hi
>
>> I think you can define an additional getter method over data as
>> dataDictionary() which should return the data xml as NSDictionary. This will
>> solve the problem for both XML and JSON.
>
> Unfortunately that isn't working for me. Here's some more information I've
> discovered about the ERREST problem; it looks like it can't cope with
> Collections (List/Map, or ArrayList/HashMap). Perhaps it wants nasty beans?
> Below is an example showing it not coping with a dictionary.
>
> 'data' is a derived attribute, returning a dictionary, declared as
> ERXKey<Object> in the ERXKeyFilter (or NSDictionary), it returns:
>
> "data":{"nil":true}
>
> An NSArray returns:
>
> "data":["stringValue"]}
>
> which is much better. But an array of dictionary gives:
>
> "data":[{"nil":true}]}
>
> So it seems that the JSON converter is having issues with
> NSDictionary/Hashmap (I've tried both).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Liz
>
>>
>> Farrukh
>>
>> On 2011-07-15, at 7:24 PM, Elizabeth Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> 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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