I am trying to return a JSON response with text that may contain double quotes in them. For example
"12.10 On-Going Submission of ""Made Up"" Samples."
I have escaped the double quotes using
StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(artifact.text);
which perfectly escapes the quotes
\"12.10 On-Going Submission of \"\"Made Up\"\" Samples.\"
But the JSON response is truncated
{
"documentName":"ICENSE AGREEMENT6",
"listOfArtifacts":[
{
"type":"Clause",
"artifacts":[
{
"documentId":6951,
"documentName":"ICENSE AGREEMENT6",
"artifactId":7029,
"text":"\\\"12.10 On-Going Submission o\\\"\\\""
This is a REST service where I have manually returned a JSON. (This is not the entire code but I hope you get the idea. in the end the result is rendered as JSON)
def index() {
def document
def artifacts
def documentId
def documentName
def artifactType
def artifactStatus
def includeClassifications
def classifications
def mapOfAtifactTypes = [:]
def listOfArtifacts = []
def listOfClassifications = []
def rtnVal = [:]
documentId = params.documentId
documentName = params.documentName
try {
if (artifacts) {
def k = StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(artifact.text);
def artifactToAdd = [
documentId: artifact.documentId,
documentName: artifact.document.docName,
artifactId: artifact.id,
//text: k,
text: artifact.text.replace("\"","\\\""),
status: artifact.status ?: Artifact.ArtifactStatus.FOR_REVIEW.value,
hasClassification: listOfClassifications ? true : false
];
listOfArtifacts.add(artifactToAdd)
}
rtnVal.listOfArtifacts = []
mapOfAtifactTypes.each { entry ->
rtnVal.listOfArtifacts.add([
type: entry.key,
artifacts: entry.value
])
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace()
rtnVal = [
status: "Bad request",
msg: e
]
render e
}
render rtnVal as JSON
}
So even with the escaping being correct why is the JSON getting truncated ? Also on the console I am getting an error :
2014-09-25 14:55:07,555 [http-bio-8080-exec-1] ERROR errors.GrailsExceptionResolver - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException occurred when processing request: [GET] /artifact - parameters:
documentName: ICENSE AGREEMENT6
String index out of range: -25. Stacktrace follows:
Message: String index out of range: -25
Line | Method
->> 1911 | substring in java.lang.String
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| 1946 | subSequence in ''
| 1042 | append . . . . in java.io.PrintWriter
| 56 | append in ''
| 180 | value . . . . in grails.converters.JSON
| 162 | convertAnother in ''
| 202 | value . . . . in ''
| 162 | convertAnother in ''
| 202 | value . . . . in ''
| 162 | convertAnother in ''
| 202 | value . . . . in ''
| 134 | render in ''
| 150 | render . . . . in ''
| 328 | $tt__index in com.thomsonreuters.ald.aeandsdx.ArtifactController
| 198 | doFilter . . . in grails.plugin.cache.web.filter.PageFragmentCachingFilter
| 63 | doFilter in grails.plugin.cache.web.filter.AbstractFilter
| 1145 | runWorker . . in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
| 615 | run in java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker
^ 745 | run . . . . . in java.lang.Thread