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Christopher Martinez
Christopher Martinez

Reputation: 7

GROOVY I am getting random backslashes when creating JSON file in Folder

I am having trouble compiling the JSON file. This is my method (the main method just has the name of the method I am writing this code in it so I did not include the main method in here.)

static void buildJSONFiles() {
        String commandJson = "C:/Users/Name/Desktop/docfiles/command_config.json"
        def data = [
                commands:
                        JsonOutput.toJson([new Commands(name:"upload", path:"\${BUILTIN_EXE(command)}", includeCommandName: true),
                                           new Commands(name:"file_info", path:"\${BUILTIN_EXE(command)}", includeCommandName: true)])
        ]

        println(data)

        def json_str = JsonOutput.toJson(data)
        def json_beauty = JsonOutput.prettyPrint(json_str)
        File file = new File(commandJson)
        file.write(json_beauty)
        println(json_str)

    }


    static class Commands {
        String name
        String path
        boolean includeCommandName
    }

my output in the console does come out right like this

[commands:[{"includeCommandName":true,"path":"${BUILTIN_EXE(command)}","name":"upload"},{"includeCommandName":true,"path":"${BUILTIN_EXE(command)}","name":"file_info"}]]

but sending it to the JSON file it comes out like this

{"commands":"[{\"includeCommandName\":true,\"path\":\"${BUILTIN_EXE(command)}\",\"name\":\"upload\"},{\"includeCommandName\":true,\"path\":\"${BUILTIN_EXE(command)}\",\"name\":\"file_info\"}]"}

I understand that JSON backslash is a special character so I expected it to be only around the :"${BUILTIN_EXE(command)} but it is showing up everywhere where I did not even have a backslash.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 295

Answers (1)

chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-
chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-

Reputation: 77187

You don't have "random backslashes", you have double-quoted JSON, since you're using JsonOutput twice. json_str is a string with JSON in it, and then you're wrapping that as a JSON value inside more JSON.

Upvotes: 1

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