Yes, I also agree with Rachel's comment about groovyConsole. I hit send
before seeing her reply.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 9:06 PM Rachel Greenham <rac...@merus.eu> wrote:
>
>
> > On 21 Sep 2021, at 11:35, James McMahon <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello. Newbie to Groovy. Have a text string that I need to verify is a
> representation of valid JSON, or not. What is an effective means to do this
> in Groovy? I'm having difficulty determining what a method like JSONSlurper
> will return to me if the string can't be parsed because it is not valid
> JSON? I've found plenty of examples of results it returns when it works,
> but nothing yet showing me what it returns when the string isn't valid
> JSON.
> > Hope this is a valid way to post such a question. As I said, this is my
> first time trying this or any Groovy forum. Thanks in advance for any help.
> -Jim
> >
>
> It doesn’t return a value, it throws groovy.json.JsonException, which is a
> RuntimeException.
>
> groovyConsole is your friend in such times…
>
> groovy> import groovy.json.*
> groovy> def slurp = new JsonSlurper()
> groovy> def parsed = slurp.parseText("}{")
>
> Exception thrown
>
> groovy.json.JsonException: Unable to determine the current character, it
> is not a string, number, array, or object
>
> The current character read is '}' with an int value of 125
> Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number,
> array, or object
> line number 1
> index number 0
> }{
> ^
>
> --
> Rachel Greenham
> rac...@merus.eu
>
>
