2014-12-10 17:26 GMT-03:00 dboeren <boer...@gmail.com>: > \u009e
You have a typo there. It should be \u00e9 #copyReplaceAll:with: is working without problems. Cheers, Hernán 2014-12-11 10:45 GMT-03:00 David Boeren <boer...@gmail.com>: > I could, but if I do it before parsing, I only have to do the string > replacement in one place. If I do it afterward, I have to apply it to > every field separately which I think makes the code look messier. Anyway, > I have tried applying it at the individual field level as a test but it > didn't work there either. My primary concern at this point is just to get > it working which has nothing to do with JSON at all, this is purely a > string operation. > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> > wrote: > >> >> > On 11 Dec 2014, at 04:41, David Boeren <boer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > That's the next line of code after what I quoted: >> > >> > "Parse the JSON data returned by the api" >> > data := NeoJSONReader fromString: response. >> > >> > But, prior to the JSON parsing I was doing a couple of string >> replacements to patch up the data. The system I'm moving the data into >> doesn't accept accented characters or bullets, and it wants empty strings >> instead of nulls. >> >> You can do the replacements after parsing too, just manipulating the >> generated data structures. I would say that is conceptually more correct. >> >> > All the JSON stuff works fine. It's just the string operations with >> copyReplaceAll:with: that aren't working as expected for some reason. >> > >> > Or are you saying that the data I get from from asUrl retrieveContents >> is not a "proper string" and maybe that's why it's not working? >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> >> wrote: >> > >> > > On 10 Dec 2014, at 21:26, dboeren <boer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > "Fetch the raw JSON data from dtdb.co" >> > > response := 'http://dtdb.co/api/cards/' asUrl retrieveContents >> asString. >> > >> > Why no do >> > >> > NeoJSONReader fromString: 'http://dtdb.co/api/cards/' asUrl >> retrieveContents >> > >> > ? >> > >> > You'll get the data back, nicely parsed and converted to proper Pharo >> strings. >> > >> > Sven >> > >> >> >> >
