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Akenefick's avatar
Akenefick
Genius
5 months ago

Trouble with http.client.response

I'm making the following http.client.request call in an endpoint. <#assign response = http.client.request("https", "api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com", "/translate?api-version=3.0&to=es&textTyp...
  • MattV's avatar
    MattV
    5 months ago

    Sounds like you're running into freemarker auto-escape. 

    https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/dgui_misc_autoescaping.html

    Basically you need to turn off autoescape or change outputformat to json. Also make sure your endpoint output format is set for application/json (this changes the content-type header in the endpoint response).

    You shouldn't need the ?replace after those changes.

Akenefick's avatar
Akenefick
Genius
5 months ago

I found this post Decoding a value using freemarker in a component o... - Atlas (khoros.com) with a similar issue and updated my code with this to replace the quotes.

 

 

${response.content?replace('&#34;','"')}

 

 
I'm not crazy about that fix and I'm also questioning if it's even necessary.
 
I found a bigger problem in the process. It was something different causing the error in the console. An extra quote seen below is breaking the Json and causing the error.
 

 

 Here it is from postman and after adding the "replace" code above which just makes it easier to see.
 
 

 

 So, I'm very confused about what is happening here. Anyone know what I'm missing?

Thanks!