json string as json value

Question

Is it possible to use a json string as a value of a json? Pass a valid json string as a value of a json element,

I need something like this sample:

{
"numberOfBlocks": 2,
"1": ""items": [
    {
        "Id": "111257",
        "Name": "AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu",
        "Order": 0
    },
    {
        "Id": "162972",
        "Name": "AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu",
        "Order": 1
    }]",
"2":""items": [
    {
        "Id": "111257",
        "Name": "AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu",
        "Order": 0
    },
    {
        "Id": "162972",
        "Name": "AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu",
        "Order": 1
    }]"

}

Is the value corresponding to 1 a String or an Object? — Dennis
– Dennis, Commented Apr 13, 2012 at 14:56

Ruan Mendes · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-13 15:13:33Z

1

Yes it is, here's a simple example:

{
   "a": 3,
   "b": "{ \"c\": \"hello\" } "
}

Or something more like what you have

{
  "numberOfBlocks": 2,
  "1": "{
    \"items\": [
      {
        \"Id\": \"111257\",
        \"Name\": \"AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu\",
        \"Order\": 0
      },
      {\
        \"Id\": \"162972\",
        \"Name\": \"AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu\",
        \"Order\": 1
      }]"
}

However, not that literal newlines aren't valid in JSON, so you'd need to escape the newlines too. In JS, it would look like the following

var a = {
  "numberOfBlocks": 2,
  "1": "{\
    \"items\": [\
      {\
        \"Id\": \"111257\",\
        \"Name\": \"AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu\",\
        \"Order\": 0\
      },\
      {\
        \"Id\": \"162972\",\
        \"Name\": \"AADbZyXqnVRCHjqWSpqQfgpu\",\
        \"Order\": 1\
      }]"
}

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edited Apr 13, 2012 at 15:13

answered Apr 13, 2012 at 14:56

Ruan Mendes

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Bergi · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-13 14:53:30Z

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yes. However, I can see no reason to do that; it would need a lot of escaped quotes. And it makes parsing difficult, apart from that it will confuse everybody who looks at your source.

answered Apr 13, 2012 at 14:53

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El Ronnoco Over a year ago

Agreed. If you are trying to do this then there is most likely a much nicer way of achieving whatever you are trying to do.

rgomesf Over a year ago

I have a very large json that takes too long to parse in ie7. I was trying to find a way to process it in smaller pieces. I know that I could have the server to split the data and make several requests to get the data, but it isn't an option right now...

score 0 · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-13 15:01:24Z

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Sure, you just need to escape double quotes as \" and newlines as \n. I don't recommend you do this, but it's certainly possible.

edited Apr 13, 2012 at 15:01

answered Apr 13, 2012 at 14:54

user1203803

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Ruan Mendes Over a year ago

You need braces and quotes around what comes after "1":, i.e., "1": "{ \"items\" : [...] }"

user1203803 Over a year ago

Figured out that strings can't be multiline anyway, so I removed the example.

rgomesf Over a year ago

escaping all the characters may be too much, but is that or encode/decode with base64...

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