Get JSON from internal rest() call
I'm making some REST calls within a custom component. Rather that traverse a nested response object in FreeMarker, I'd prefer to receive a JSON string, which I could insert as a data-* attribute on o...
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Thank you. I'll have to try it to be sure, but I don't see where this macro inserts quotes around strings in the resulting JSON, and I don't see any escaping happening, so I don't think the JSON would be safe to use in JavaScript code if the data was tainted and unescaped.
Lithium Engineering: Please add a native options for escaped JSON string output from the internal rest() function.
Hey Shawn-ad,
You can do the following (Thanks DougS) in an endpoint (but not in components):
1) Create an endpoint with your rest call similar to the following (Note: the @@markup call will get you the xml string for the freemarker object):
${rest("/threads/recent").@@markup}
2) Set return type to text/plain
3) call your endpoint with the following query parameter
?xslt=json.xsl
This should return the json as a string.
Hope this helps,
Yuri
