Passing HTML using JSON

Question

Hi All, I'm passing Data using JSON to iPhone and iPad. One Field of Data is HTML.

The problem is the encoding.

Here's what I get back:

> "GadgetHTML": "<strong>Hello</strong>
> from Catworld<br />\n<img alt=\"\"
> src=\"http://www.iconarchive.com/icons/fasticon/ifunny/128/dog-icon.png\"
> />",

The \ are killing me. The \n does not help.

Any good way to do this?

Any JSON to HTML Cleaning Functions? Encoding?

(There must be something better than manually removing )

Thanks

Answer 1

The service that sends the JSON Block should escape all back slashes with another backslash.

Answer 2

It is HTML, it is just JSON encoded. Use a standard JSON parser and the string you get back will have the escape characters handled for you…

… or are you trying to write your own JSON parser? (Probably not a good idea, but if you really want to reinvent the wheel then the spec is at http://json.org (and the ECMA-262 specification would probably help you for the grammar)).