Perfect - thanks!
Jonathan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 1:41 PM Martin Honnen <martin.hon...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 10.11.2021 19:34, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> > I want to serialize JSON. Consider the following function:
> >
> > declare function local:index()
> > {
> > array{ $levinsohn/levinsohn/feature/header ! map {./name :
> > ./description ! string() } }
> > };
> >
> > When I run that, I get output that looks like this:
> >
> > [map {
> > "Ambiguous": "Marked but ambiguous constituent order."
> > }, map {
> > "annotations": "Inline annotations."
> > }
> > !!! SNIP !!!]
> >
> > That won't work as output in a REST API, so I want to serialize that
> > without the map keyword. I tried to use fn:serialize():
> >
> > declare function local:index()
> > {
> > array{ $levinsohn/levinsohn/feature/header ! map {./name :
> > ./description ! string() } } ! serialize(.)
> > };
> >
> > That gave me this error:
> >
> > items of type map(*) cannot be serialized
> >
> >
> > So ... what's the right way to do this?
>
> I would use
>
> serialize(local:index(), map { 'method' : 'json' })
>
> to serialize the whole array as JSON
>
>
