Re: [ansible-project] URI module / json parsing problem with escaped doueble qoutes

2014-12-17 Thread Lucas, Sascha
Hi, From: myself Date: Tue, 16. Dec 2014 11:48 > According to http://json.org/ in the picture "string" > double quotes (quotation mark) must be escaped. So I assume it is valid > JSON. If so, there must be something wrong with the python parser? httplib2 returns the content right (backslash escap

Re: [ansible-project] URI module / json parsing problem with escaped doueble qoutes

2014-12-16 Thread Lucas, Sascha
Hi Michael, From: Michael DeHaan Date: Mon, 15. Dec 2014 14:29 > Things like jsonlint pass, but it seems the Python JSON formatter does not > like what you have. > I'm wondering if this might actually not be valid JSON, or just that there is > a bug in the python json library. Thanks a lot. A

Re: [ansible-project] URI module / json parsing problem with escaped doueble qoutes

2014-12-15 Thread Michael DeHaan
Hmm, that's curious. Things like jsonlint pass, but it seems the Python JSON formatter does not like what you have. Here's a simple test program: STRING = """ { "names": [ "nameA", "\"double quoted name\"", "nameB" ] } """ import json print json.loads(STRING) I'm wondering if th

[ansible-project] URI module / json parsing problem with escaped doueble qoutes

2014-12-15 Thread Lucas, Sascha
Hi, I'm talking to a REST/json webservice via the URI module. The webservice is correctly returning a list like this: { "names": [ "nameA", "\"double quoted name\"", "nameB" ] } However the uri module does not retrun the json key, because json.loads(content) fails. If I comment out try/e