Re: YAJL Stringify

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  I actually think I'm going to use addStmf().  I forgot it would
escape data when you add it.  It will be a few days before I have test
data, but at least I know it should work.

Thanks again.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 9:22 PM Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> You would use yajl_stringifyStr() to get the JSON document as a JSON
> string (not escaped)
>
> Then use YAJL_addChar() to add it as a string field in another JSON
> document.  (This will handle the escaping of characters -- not just for
> JSON, but for any string you add to a JSON document.  It literally doesn't
> matter that your data happens to be JSON data... any data added to a JSON
> string has to have double quotes (and sometimes other things) escaped.)
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> On 6/21/24 9:49 AM, Brad Stone wrote:
>
> I have a project where I need to pass a JSON string as the contents of a
> json object.  (Please don't ask why.... I'm past that point.. haha).
>
> Anyhow, does the yajl_stringify() or yajl_stringifyStr() function escape
> the JSON so this can be done, or is that something I will need to do
> manually.   It looks like specifically the double quotes need to be escaped
> with \".
>
> Or is there a better way?
>
> So basically I have to:
>
> 1.  Build the first JSON
> 2.  Stringify the JSON
> 3.  Add that JSON as the value of another JSON document.
>
> TIA!
>
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