JSON specifies that all strings are quoted with double-quotes, so you need
to do that with the internal strings as well as the properties.
On Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:44:16 AM UTC-5, Daniel LaLiberte wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> The requirements for proper JSON syntax are strict, and not the same as
> JavaScript Object literals. The names of properties must be quoted with
> double quotes, so you might prefer to use single quotes for the outermost
> string quoting and double quotes inside. E.g.
> var haha =
> '{' +
> ' "cols":[{"id": "task", ...}]' +
> '}';
>
> dan
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:34 AM, ah89 <[email protected]
> <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I am trying to convert an array to a JSON string, which can be assigned
>> to a Google Visualization datatable.
>> However, whatever I try, I keep getting errors. Even with the example of
>> Google Visualization API!
>>
>> This is what I have:
>>
>> String haha = "{" +
>>> " cols: [{id: 'task', label: 'Task',
>>> type: 'string'}," +
>>> " {id: 'hours', label: 'Hours per Day',
>>> type: 'number'}]," +
>>> " rows: [{c:[{v: 'Work'}, {v: 11}]}," +
>>> " {c:[{v: 'Eat'}, {v: 2}]}," +
>>> " {c:[{v: 'Commute'}, {v: 2}]}," +
>>> " {c:[{v: 'Watch TV'}, {v:2}]}," +
>>> " {c:[{v: 'Sleep'}, {v:7,
>>> f:'7.000'}]}" +
>>> " ]" +
>>> " }";
>>>
>>
>>
>> JSP: var view = new google.visualization.DataTable(${chartData});
>>
>> What I get is an error, telling me that the JSON format is invalid.
>>
>> The goal is to save a hashmap to a datatable with JSON (hashmap contains
>> a category and a value). The above example was used as I cannot seem to
>> build a proper JSON format myself. But this doesn't work as well.
>>
>> Hopefully someone can help me. Thanks in advance
>>
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