Originally posted by: paul.brett

I had a client trying to import a JSON data file.  It contained a mixture of quote characters:

At this font size, it's easy to visually compare the types, and 'see' that the second and third examples are not the same as a standard quote character.  The JSON importer will choke on either of these two 'invalid' quote characters:

java.io.IOException: Unexpected character '"' on line 6, column 21
    at com.ibm.json.java.internal.Tokenizer.next(Tokenizer.java:129)
    at com.ibm.json.java.internal.Parser.parseObject(Parser.java:109)
    at com.ibm.json.java.internal.Parser.parseValue(Parser.java:231)
    at com.ibm.json.java.internal.Parser.parseObject(Parser.java:110)
    at com.ibm.json.java.internal.Parser.parseValue(Parser.java:231)
    at com.ibm.json.java.internal.Parser.parseObject(Parser.java:110)
    at com.ibm.json.java.internal.Parser.parse(Parser.java:58)
    at com.ibm.json.java.OrderedJSONObject.parse(OrderedJSONObject.java:65)
    at com.ibm.json.java.JSON.parse(JSON.java:71)
    at com.ibm.json.java.JSON.parse(JSON.java:135)
    at com.ibm.websphere.dtx.ui.importers.json.model.util.Builder.build(Unknown Source)
    at com.ibm.websphere.dtx.ui.importers.json.JSONImporter.getModel(Unknown Source)
    at com.ibm.websphere.dtx.ui.importers.json.JSONImporter.generateTree(Unknown Source)
    at com.ibm.websphere.dtx.ui.importers.dialogs.WTXImportWizard.buildTypeTree(Unknown Source)
    at com.ibm.websphere.dtx.ui.importers.dialogs.WTXImportWizard$2.run(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)

I hope this helps somebody who might be struggling with this at some point in the future.

Thank-you.

Paul.

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