I have two objects that I'd like to bundle up and ship in an array, encoded as JSON with mochijson. They are:
> Book0 = {struct, [{"title", "a book"}, {"id", "1"}]}.
> Book1 = {struct, [{"title", "another book"}, {"id", "2"}]}.
However,
> mochijson:encode({struct, [{"books", [Book0, Book1]}]}).
** exception exit: {json_encode,{bad_char,{struct,[{"title","a book"},
{"id","1"}]}}}
in function mochijson:json_encode_string_unicode_1/1 (src/mochijson.erl, line 203)
in call from mochijson:json_encode_string_unicode/1 (src/mochijson.erl, line 190)
in call from mochijson:'-json_encode_proplist/2-fun-0-'/3 (src/mochijson.erl, line 151)
in call from lists:foldl/3 (lists.erl, line 1197)
in call from mochijson:json_encode_proplist/2 (src/mochijson.erl, line 154)
How do I structure my data for mochijson? I'm aware of this article but it, sadly, does not cover arrays of objects.
mochijson:encode({struct, [{"books", {array, [Book0, Book1]}}]}).
[123,"\"books\"",58,
[91,
[123,"\"title\"",58,"\"a book\"",44,"\"id\"",58,"\"1\"",125],
44,
[123,"\"title\"",58,"\"another book\"",44,"\"id\"",58,
"\"2\"",125],
93],
125]
But the general consensus indeed seems to be: "use mochijson2" (which would correctly work for both cases with and without array
).