topic Invalid Json caused by characters in the description in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/invalid-json-caused-by-characters-in-the-description/m-p/273377#M226507 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a webscript that returns a list of files as json. When a file has a description that has a line break in it then when I try to decode the json on the other side it is invalid. Is there a way to json ecode the description string in the ftl template? or in some other way?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:00:29 GMT dallinns 2012-03-08T20:00:29Z Invalid Json caused by characters in the description https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/invalid-json-caused-by-characters-in-the-description/m-p/273377#M226507 I have a webscript that returns a list of files as json. When a file has a description that has a line break in it then when I try to decode the json on the other side it is invalid. Is there a way to json ecode the description string in the ftl template? or in some other way? Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:00:29 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/invalid-json-caused-by-characters-in-the-description/m-p/273377#M226507 dallinns 2012-03-08T20:00:29Z Re: Invalid Json caused by characters in the description https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/invalid-json-caused-by-characters-in-the-description/m-p/273378#M226508 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This should suit your needs:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_json_string" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_json_string</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So you'll end up with something like</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>${description?json_string});</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:12:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/invalid-json-caused-by-characters-in-the-description/m-p/273378#M226508 scouil 2012-03-09T08:12:23Z