Hi, My hypothesis was closer to Erik's but I thought that being a JSON taken from Wikimedia API, it should be correct. I didn't realize that I converted it to STON to preserve line breaks and improve diff friendliness. After using `STON fromString:` as advised by Peter, everything worked well.
Thanks everyone for their timely "wisdom nuggets". I learned a little by with each message here. Cheers, Offray On 8/02/20 5:35 a. m., Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Hi, > > Like Erik says the input is indeed illegal JSON. JSON strings are delimited > using double quotes not single quotes. There is no way around this, this is > not optional. > > As Peter says, STON is more flexible. STON itself uses single quotes to be > closer to Smalltalk. STON in its JSON compatibility mode does also recognise > double quotes. So the class STONReader supports both, without further > configuration. > > Sven > >> On 8 Feb 2020, at 10:34, PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Offray >> >> I have a workaround, not an explanation. I don't use NeoJSON, because for me >> the JSON facilities of STON are sufficient. So I tried you script with >> 'NeoJSONReader fromString:' replaced by 'STON fromString:' - everything >> worked perfectly, no parsing error. So clearly there is nothing wrong with >> your input file. If you have STON installed, or think it worth installing, >> this could get you moving. >> >> HTH >> >> Peter Kenny >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of Offray >> Vladimir Luna Cárdenas >> Sent: 08 February 2020 07:38 >> To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> >> Subject: [Pharo-users] NeoJSONParseError: invalid input: ' while parsing a >> Wikipedia exported article. >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to read the contents of a Wikipedia article that was exported >> from there using Wikipedias JSON API. >> >> The script I'm trying is: >> >> NeoJSONReader fromString: >> 'https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/pharopedia/doc/tip/docs/wikipedia.org/wiki/en/Pharo/contents.json' >> asUrl retrieveContents utf8Decoded >> >> But I get "NeoJSONParseError: invalid input: '". As far as I can tell, the >> file at [1] seems like valid JSON, as is the one that Wikipedia API exports >> >> [1] >> 'https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/pharopedia/doc/tip/docs/wikipedia.org/wiki/en/Pharo/contents.json' >> >> Could anybody point me to a solution? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Offray >> >> >> >
