Stingray
Problem with decoding backslash in JSON
I’m faced with a problem in websockets when I received a message with backslash. I escapes backslash with double ‘’ but error is raised.
So I decide to check how Poison lib is working in iex console:
Poison.decode! "{\"string\":\"a\\b\"}"
return me:
%{"string" => "a\b"}
and
Poison.decode! "{\"string\":\"a\\c\"}"
return me:
** (Poison.SyntaxError) Unexpected token: c
but I expect
%{"string" => "a\c"}
What wrong with my string?
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Marcus
No, that is the representation of the string with the escaped backslash. If you print the string with IO.puts you get a\b.
Try the sigli ~S in iex.
iex(21)> ~S|{"string":"a\\c"}| # generates a string with no escaping
"{\"string\":\"a\\\\c\"}" # the string with escaping
iex(22)> Poison.decode(~S|{"string":"a\\c"}|) # escaped just for the parser
{:ok, %{"string" => "a\\c"}}
iex(23)> ~S|a\c|
"a\\c"
iex(24)> IO.puts("a\\c")
a\c
:ok
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talentdeficit
you have two levels of escaping going on. one for iex and one for json
“{“string”:“a\\b”}” in iex is equivalent to the json string ‘{“string”:“a\b”}’ which is the literal character “a” followed by the escape sequence for a backspace
if you want the literal character “a” followed by the literal character “” followed by the literal character “b” you want the string ‘{“string”:“a\\b”}’ which written in iex/elixir is “{“string”:“a\\\\b”}”
arcanemachine
I was confused when this worked, even though I had already tried using the ~s sigil without success.
It turns out that the ~S sigil (with a capital ‘S’) doesn’t do any interpolation and ignores escape codes, which solved the problem for me:
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/sigils.html#interpolation-and-escaping-in-string-sigils
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