Converting dictionary to a different JSON response

RE: Converting dictionary to a different JSON response

baratc — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:34:40 GMT

Hi Vivek

Please try the below code which is closer to your output.

a!localVariables(
local!data:{
{name:"Vivek",
place:"XYZ"}
} ,
local!final:substitute(insertkeyval("name",local!data["name"],"\","\"),"=","\:\"),
local!final2:substitute(insertkeyval("place",local!data["place"],"\","\"),"=","\:\"),
local!data2:concat(local!final,",",local!final2),
local!data2

)

sample output "\name\:\Vivek\,\place\:\XYZ\"

RE: Converting dictionary to a different JSON response

vivekg0004 — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:29:17 GMT

The information helped. Thanks Stefan.

RE: Converting dictionary to a different JSON response

vivekg0004 — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:17:02 GMT

Yes I want to escape the quotes in json string. Will the substitute function will help achieve this?

RE: Converting dictionary to a different JSON response

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:11:04 GMT

What is your use case?

If you really need to do that, you can do a toJson() followed by a substitute() call to replace " with \".

Feels like you want to escape a JSON string. For this you would need to escape more characters.

docs.microsoft.com/.../how-for-json-escapes-special-characters-and-control-characters-sql-server