[fpc-pascal] JSON parser error due to my data values.

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-01-26 10:56, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
>> Is such escape sequence processing a JSON standard?
> 
> Yes. See:
> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-404.pdf


Ah, thanks for confirming that. I see now the relevant JSON standards
information regarding a string value is as follows:

==================================
string
    ""
    " chars "
chars
    char
    char chars
char
    any-Unicode-character-
        except-"-or-\-or-
        control-character
    \"
    \\
    \/
    \b
    \f
    \n
    \r
    \t
    \u four-hex-digits
==================================



> That is probably a bad idea, as it goes against JSON standards. Basically
> the JSON you're trying to feed it is invalid. Fix the JSON, don't try to
> force the parser to work it around.

Thanks, I'll use forward slashes instead and then SetDirSeparators() in
my code after reading in those values.

Looking into the fpjson.pp unit I see the following two functions...

Function StringToJSONString(const S : TJSONStringType) : TJSONStringType;
Function JSONStringToString(const S : TJSONStringType) : TJSONStringType;


Which does all those conversions for you too. Good to know! ;-)


Regards,
  Graeme

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