He's double escaping so that scala's string interpretation will put a
raw \ in there, so that it's an escaped forward slash (\/) to the JSON
parson, as I understand it. The output should be either invalid escape
or forward slash, but not backslash unless the input was \\.
-Ross
On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Peter Robinett wrote:
> Harry, I think you're double-escaping the slash. This works:
> scala> import net.liftweb.json._
> scala> val s1 = "{ \"id\": \"America/New_York\" }"
> s1: java.lang.String = { "id": "America/New_York" }
>
> scala> JsonParser.parse(s1)
> res0: net.liftweb.json.JsonAST.JValue = JObject(List(JField(id,JString
> (America/New_York))))
>
> Peter Robinett
>
> On Nov 30, 2:16 pm, harryh <har...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> scala> import net.liftweb.json._
>> scala> val s2 = "{ \"id\": \"America\\/New_York\" }"
>> s2: java.lang.String = { "id": "America\/New_York" }
>>
>> scala> JsonParser.parse(s2)
>> res1: net.liftweb.json.JsonAST.JValue = JObject(List(JField
>> (id,JString
>> (America\New_York))))
>>
>> It should be America/New_York but for some reason getting a \ instead
>> of a /
>>
>> -harryh
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