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Tom Hammond
Tom Hammond

Reputation: 6090

Rails Escaping JSON

I'm working on an external API.

They want JSON as a string for a GET request in a query param.

The problem with Ruby is that it treats JSON as a string and escapes quotes, so we end up sending:

"{\"api_key\":\"9e4b33422adb-3832c7-41379-b2f31-8fc295aefb8c8\",\"ip\":\"184.61.23.239\"}

Instead of {"api_key":"9e4b33422adb-3832c7-41379-b2f31-8fc295aefb8c8","ip":"184.61.23.239"} as their system is expecting.

Any idea the best way to handle formatting our JSON to match their criteria?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 168

Answers (2)

ThienSuBS
ThienSuBS

Reputation: 1622

Another solution is using gem 'oj'. I prefer to use this gem, because it so fast and good performance.

Using with oj like this:

j = Oj.load("{\"api_key\":\"9e4b33422adb-3832c7-41379-b2f31-8fc295aefb8c8\",\"ip\":\"184.61.23.239\"}")

It will be:

=> {"api_key"=>"9e4b33422adb-3832c7-41379-b2f31-8fc295aefb8c8", "ip"=>"184.61.23.239"}

Upvotes: 0

fl9
fl9

Reputation: 434

You could use JSON.parse, i.e.,

JSON.parse("{\"api_key\":\"9e4b33422adb-3832c7-41379-b2f31-8fc295aefb8c8\",\"ip\":\"184.61.23.239\"}")

returns

{"api_key" => "9e4b33422adb-3832c7-41379-b2f31-8fc295aefb8c8","ip" => "184.61.23.239"}

Upvotes: 4

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