JSonGenerator Boolean

[COBRASoft]

Hey,

There is a problem with the JSon generator and booleans. It uses true or false and not 0 and 1. So, the generator places text without quotes as value.

E.g. WCF services can't deal with this syntax. Yes, I can use an int and do the translation myself, but I think the JSon generator must do this and generate correct JSon, being 0 or 1 for booleans.

Greetings,
Sigurd

 

[warwound]

JSON is an abbreviation of javascript object notation and javascript does use true and false for boolean values.

Have you seen JSONLint?

Copy this into the validator on that page:

{
    "a": false
}

The result is:

Valid JSON

A valid JSON string is a string which a javascript engine can evaluate NOT a string which a non-javascript webservice can parse.

Maybe if the webservice you are using didn't describe the fields as boolean but instead described then as integer types then it'd be more logical?

Martin.

 

[COBRASoft]

Very strange... Integer doesn't help, WCF REST Services expect 0 or 1 for a boolean. Which seems more logical than true and false written in text to me .

Nevertheless, thanks for the explanation. It would be handy if the developer could specify how booleans are 'translated' into JSon.