Dictionary to JSON

[spherico (Andreas Kiel)]

All the best for the New Year.

I have some JSON here which are converted to an AS record and from there to a dictionary to find key/values and modify them.
When want to go back there seems to be two ways (for format):

	set {jsonDictionary, anError} to current application's NSJSONSerialization's dataWithJSONObject:sheetDict options:(current application's **NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted**) |error|:(reference)
	set {jsonDictionary, anError} to current application's NSJSONSerialization's dataWithJSONObject:sheetDict options:(current application's **NSJSONWritingSortedKeys**) |error|:(reference)

For the first one I get many new line and extra spacing for indents - the target app doesn’t like it and I haven’t found a ‘good regex’ yet.
For the second one everything looks fine, but line feeds in the text parts are missing. I can handle that somehow.

But is there ‘an easy way’ without ‘post processing’?

[alldritt (Mark Alldritt)]

Here’s a post discussing generating JSON data:

Writing JSON data with NSJSONSerialization

Writing JSON data with NSJSONSerialization As a bookend to my previous post on reading JSON data with NSJSONSerialization, here is a snippet of code demonstrating how to write an AppleScript record as JSON data. While my sample converts an AppleScript record to JSON, the same technique can be used with AppleScript lists as well. Here is the AppleScript code: use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later use scripting additions use framework "Foundation" -- classes, constants, an…

Near the end of this post I talk about the NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted option which introduces whitespace and newlines. You can pass an option value of 0 to turn this off.

[spherico (Andreas Kiel)]

Near the end of this post I talk about the NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted option which introduces whitespace and newlines. You can pass an option value of 0 to turn this off.

Thanks,

This works perfectly.