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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Thanks, Yuri. It is interesting that I can use your suggestion to convert any XML emdpoint into JSON. However, I was trying to get JSON data rendered inside the page HTML so that I don't have to make a separate HTTP request to the API (or to a custom endpoint).
Clearly Lithium has a way to get an API response as XML markup (using @@markup an endpoint). it would be great if I could get JSON using a similar FreeMarker translation method, and do so in a component to get it rendered in-page.
big +1000, the problem is not to get JSON from an endpoint but inside a component or any type of freemarker code...the rest() lithium context object ALWAYS returns a freemarker node when used in a freemarker template, this makes things much harder as they would need to be =/
