Thanks for spotting that Hernán, I'm not sure how that managed to pass unnoticed so long :)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Hernán Morales Durand < hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >>> > >>> >>> >>> >> >
