At the risk of getting slapped around, I'm posting the following here even though it's an 8.x issue. This forum just appears to have more activity than the 8.x forums (although I've also posted there).
I have a simple view I'm using in conjunction with an ajax call using ?ReadViewEntries&OutputFormat=json. I have a column in the view which simply displays the value of a field ("DialogContent") on a form. The field value is some text which my javascript code will display on a help tip dialog.
Let's assume the value of the field is:
<p>This is my help text!</p>
In Domino 8.0.2, the json returned for this field appears as follows:
{
"@columnnumber": "2",
"@name": "DialogContent",
"text": {
"0": "<p>This is my help text!</p>"
}
}
My javascript code has no problems parsing this response, and testing this response with a json validator (
http://jsonlint.com/) is successful.
However, in Domino 8.5.3, the json output for the same view returns the following for this column:
{
"@columnnumber": "2",
"@name": "DialogContent",
"text": {
"0": "<p\>This is my help text\!</p\>"
}
}
Note the backslash (\) escaping the > and ! characters. This json output does not pass validation and breaks my javascript code.
Does anyone know why 8.5.3 is returning different json than 8.0.2, and how I can get around this? I know I could write an agent to return what I'm after, instead of using ReadViewEntries, but I'd like to understand why this changed???
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JSON text escaped in 8.5.3 (John Dobbins 26.Jun.12)
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