Bob, Tnx for the info. However, isn’t it reasonable that the LC conversion should respond with some indication that it can’t do the JSON to array conversion, rather than throw a script error?
Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Nov 18, 2018, at 6:18 AM, bob--- via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Livecode provides a text editor to, well, edit text. It does not understand > the syntax/grammar of languages (Livecode, HTML, Javascript, JSON, YML, etc). > What you need is an editor that “knows" JSON. > > Your best bet is to copy the text into Sublime, Visual Studio Code or Atom > which do understand JSON’s syntax/grammar. There may be some configuration to > the tool you will need to do but you will get indications from these editors > when you have malformed JSON. > > - Bob Hall > >> On Nov 17, 2018, at 6:39 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> What I would like to do is get a dialog that the JSON wasn’t formed >> correctly. Of course, since I’m using it for my personal development of my >> app, I can know that it failed if I don’t get the answer dialog I put in >> after it. but, it seems a kludge. Shouldn’t there be some kind of an error >> result if the JSON is ill-formed? > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
