Get request response is in weird format

Question

I send a get request to a local (separate from app) jetty web server

RestClient.get("ip/command/core/get-version", {})

Then I do a JSON.parse() on the response.

As a result I get

{&quot;revision&quot;=&gt;&quot;r2407&quot;, &quot;full_version&quot;=&gt;&quot;2.5 [r2407]&quot;, &quot;full_name&quot;=&gt;&quot; [r2407]&quot;, &quot;version&quot;=&gt;&quot;2.5&quot;}

What's wrong? How do I turn it into a hash, so I can extract the full_version property?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '13 at 13:32

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String returned by service is html encoded. Try decoding it first:

JSON.parse(CGI.unescape_html(response_body))

answered Nov 29 '13 at 13:32

BroiSatse

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Your JSON response looks to be encoded into HTML entities.

If you are using Ruby, try decoding the response using CGI.unescape_html prior to running JSON.parse. Running the result of that method through JSON.parse should give you your hash.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Nov 29 '13 at 13:36

alxklo

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Get request response is in weird format

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