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[chandu]

If anybody have any idea please share..How to Store a json object in variable?
actually i have a json object like:

{
"employees":[
    {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"}, 
    {"firstName":"Anna",	"lastName":"Smith"},
    {"firstName":"Peter", "lastName":"Jones"}
]
}

i want to store it in a variable. like:
employeedetails = "employees":[
{"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"},
{"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},
{"firstName":"Peter", "lastName":"Jones"}
]
if i store it direct(in employeedetails) like above example it give me syntax error.

[RokuMarkn]

You need to retain the outermost curly brackets to make it an AssociativeArray.

--Mark

[TheEndless]

In the 6.x firmware, you can't have quoted key names, so you'd likely need to use ParseJSON to convert the JSON string to an AssociativeArray.

[RokuKC]

"chandu" wrote:
If anybody have any idea please share..How to Store a json object in variable?

If the use case is that you are getting a JSON string from somewhere (like a web service) that you want to work with,
then the answer is to use the ParseJSON function to convert it to a BrightScript object representation.

ParseJSON will also handle things like embedded quotation marks and escape sequences in string values, null values, etc., and it will automatically handle the keys as case-sensitive / case-preserving.