topic jsonUtils usage in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jsonutils-usage/m-p/305615#M258745 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm creating a repository tier webscript that processes content posted as json. In the script, I got the root 'json' object ok, but when I try to convert it to a native js object using jsonUtils.toObject(json), I can't figure out what's going on…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>example posted json:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>{"a": [{"b": "c"}, {"d": "e"}]}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>when i do:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;javascript&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>var test = jsonUtils.toObject(json);</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;/javascript&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Using the alfresco javascript debugger and the Expression window, here's what I see:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />json&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {"a": [{"b": "c"}, {"d": "e"}]}<BR />test&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TypeError: Cannot find default value for object. <BR />test.a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [{"b": "c"}, {"d": "e"}]<BR />test.a.length&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />test.a.size&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; function size() {/* int size() */} <BR />test.a.get&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; function get() {/* java.lang.Object get(int) */} <BR />test.a[0]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Java class "org.json.simple.JSONArray" has no public instance field or method named "0".<BR />test.a.get(0)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; null<BR />test.a.getJSONObject(0)&nbsp;&nbsp; TypeError: Cannot find function getJSONObject.&nbsp; <BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>This is confusing enough. From the documentation it seems that jsonUtils.toObject should return a native javascript object, except array values were not converted, and I can't even use functions from JSONArray java object? I'm struggling to iterate over the array that's the value of "a".</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>(I also tried to import and use the json2.js file at </SPAN><A href="https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js</A><SPAN> instead, but it failed to import and choked when trying to add the toJSON function to Date.prototype)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help is appreciated!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:27:40 GMT dlamoris 2013-08-06T19:27:40Z jsonUtils usage https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jsonutils-usage/m-p/305615#M258745 Hi all, I'm creating a repository tier webscript that processes content posted as json. In the script, I got the root 'json' object ok, but when I try to convert it to a native js object using jsonUtils.toObject(json), I can't figure out what's going on…example posted json:{"a": [{"b": "c"}, {"d": " Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:27:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jsonutils-usage/m-p/305615#M258745 dlamoris 2013-08-06T19:27:40Z Re: jsonUtils usage https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jsonutils-usage/m-p/305616#M258746 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have aways struggled myself with this &amp; generally do jsonVar = eval( "(" + jsonString + ")" 0;</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:40:05 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jsonutils-usage/m-p/305616#M258746 rjohnson 2013-08-07T07:40:05Z Re: jsonUtils usage https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jsonutils-usage/m-p/305617#M258747 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks, I thought about doing that, but eval can't safely be used in production… What I ended up doing is importing the json2.js, but comment out the part that adds toJSON functions to Date.prototype, etc. That imported successfully and I can do JSON.parse. (That means I can't do stringify, but I don't need that in this case)</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:43:37 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jsonutils-usage/m-p/305617#M258747 dlamoris 2013-08-07T16:43:37Z