I have a flow where I get JOSN data from a HTTP Input node. I store the JSON data in Environment variable.

Code:

CREATE LASTCHILD OF Environment DOMAIN ('JSON') FROM InputRoot.JSON;

Later in the code I create a output from the environment variable and put to a file as well to a MQ Queue.

Code:

SET OutputRoot.JSON = Environment.JSON;

The JSON data has a date field as String.

Code:

"startDate": "06/01/2020"

The file gets created with proper JSON data but the MQ message has extra special character for the date field.

Code:

startDate="06\/01\/2020"

I am not getting the reason why the MQ message get special characters around the "/".

Any suggestion.

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Partha Baidya
Bangalore

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The JSON specification, JSON.org  states that forward slash, "solidus" can be escaped.

By default the IIB/ACE JSON serializer does escape forward slash, hence it is expected that your '/' become '\/' in the JSON output.

However IIB/ACE does provide a JSON configuration parameter "escapeMode" which can be set to change this behavior. Please see Parameter values for the JSON parser

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Martin Boag
Software Developer
IBM
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Thanks a lot Martin for replying. The fix is working as per your suggestion.

Regards,
Partha




Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 03, 2020 05:28 PM
From: Martin Boag
Subject: IIB JSON parser adding special character while writing to MQ

The JSON specification, JSON.org  states that forward slash, "solidus" can be escaped.

By default the IIB/ACE JSON serializer does escape forward slash, hence it is expected that your '/' become '\/' in the JSON output.

However IID/ACE does provide a JSON configuration parameter "escapeMode" which can be set to change this behavior. Please see Parameter values for the JSON parser

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Martin Boag
Software Developer
IBM
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