When consuming a Hug REST endpoint from .net JSON has embedded characters. A complete failing example posted below. Any help greatly appreciated.
Python
@hug.post('/test')
def test(response, body=None):
input = body.get('input')
print('INSIDE TEST ' + input)
if input:
dict = {"lastname":"Jordan"}
dict["firstname"] = input
return json.dumps(dict, sort_keys=True, default=str)
.NET (can only use .net 3.5)
private static object GetParsedData(string data)
{
var posturl = "http://localhost:8000/test";
try
{
using (var client = new WebClient())
{
// upload values is the POST verb
var values = new NameValueCollection()
{
{ "input", data },
};
var response = client.UploadValues(posturl, values);
var responseString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(response);
var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
{
NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore,
MissingMemberHandling = MissingMemberHandling.Ignore
};
JObject rss = JObject.Parse(responseString);
Console.WriteLine((string)rss["lastname"]);
}
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
if (ex.Response is HttpWebResponse)
{
var code = ((HttpWebResponse)ex.Response).StatusCode;
var desc = ((HttpWebResponse)ex.Response).StatusDescription;
}
//_logger.Error(ex.Message);
}
return false;
}
responseString looks like this:
"\"{\\\"firstname\\\": \\\"Mike\\\", \\\"lastname\\\": \\\"Jordan\\\"}\""
JObject.Parse throws error:
Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException:
'Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Current JsonReader item is not an object: String. Path '', line 1, position 53.
Workaround - If I do something horrible like this to responseString JObject parses correctly:
str = str.Replace("\\", "");
str = str.Substring(1, len - 2);
Whats going on?
