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Using Javascript to render JSON: an important gotchas

martin_cowie — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:36:02 GMT

Here's the brief: in development of my web scripts, using FreeMarker to output JSON is proving something of an impediment.Bearing in mind that JavaScript comes with it's own 'Obect.toSource()' method - I thought to use the existing code formatter already baked into Rhino.However, when running .toSou

Re: Using Javascript to render JSON: an important gotchas

davidc — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:46:34 GMT

What's the impediement?

Re: Using Javascript to render JSON: an important gotchas

martin_cowie — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:26:48 GMT

The impediment in this case is the time spent on the FreeMarker learning curve, teaching myself how to recurse through an object-model (built in JavaScript) to render a piece of JSON, when I was really re-inventing the wheel - as the Rhino engine already has this ability.

The model-view separation has merit, for all sort of reasons, but rendering JSON and indeed XML in FreeMarker is a painful business, and on best done with tools already bake into JavaScript.

It is possible in the FreeMarker to call a JavaScript function to do this rendering?

Cheers,

M.