does/has anyone used a json deserializer other tha...
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09/12/2022, 7:41 PMdoes/has anyone used a json deserializer other than the BIF? i'm tired of cf turning boolean values into YES / NO
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:42 PMOn Adobe?
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:42 PMyes, cf10 in this case
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:42 PMOh, lol
bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:42 PMThat's your problem 🙂
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:43 PMsky is blue
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:43 PMw
websolete
09/12/2022, 7:43 PMany advantages to dropping to a java lib to do it
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:43 PMAdobe hasn't done that for a while
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:43 PMi can always clean up the final string myself, but i'm old and tired
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:43 PMWell, I was going to suggest the JSON Pretty Print lib, but I have no idea if it even runs on CF10
bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:44 PMYou could try a java lib, but I don't know if they will handle CFML structs/arrays natively or not
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:44 PMthe snippet above runs true,false on trycf for cf10
websolete
09/12/2022, 7:45 PMreturns, that is
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:46 PMAre you on
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:46 PMhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514Ijpo5NFL._AC_.jpgâ–¾
websolete
09/12/2022, 7:46 PMnot sure, would have to check
websolete
09/12/2022, 7:51 PM10.0.23 fwiw. also, specifically it's the deserializer that's dumbing down the boolean into the yes/no format. would love to meet the genius that decided yes/no is the same as true/false all those years ago
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:52 PMWell, I'm sure they never foresaw JSON 😆
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:52 PMwddx was great when it was the only thing
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:52 PMw
websolete
09/12/2022, 7:53 PMyes, not limited to cf10 it appears
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:53 PMnot quite
bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:53 PMThat's just a UI trick
bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:53 PMIt's really a boolean behind the scenes
bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:53 PMbdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:53 PMAdobe CF will simply always turn a bool into a string as yes or no
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:54 PMi feel less stupid now, but still
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:54 PMBut as of 2016 I think, it actually preserves the actual type underneath
bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:54 PMyou can see above, the array still re-converts to proper true/false in the JSON
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:54 PMi believe forcibly quoting booleans will 'preserve' them, but then you're just relying on implicit type conversion/evaluation
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bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:54 PMBut in CF11 and before, ALL simple values are a
java.lang.Stringbdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:55 PMRelated blog post...
https://www.codersrevolution.com/blog/why-is-lucee-so-much-better-at-handling-json
bdw429s
09/12/2022, 7:55 PMOops, I guess they didn't fix this until 2018, not 2016 like I mistakenly said above
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websolete
09/12/2022, 7:55 PMwill read it, despite not needing any more reminders that i'm on acf10
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Mark Takata (Adobe)
09/12/2022, 8:32 PMJust ask the hackers who get in your system to ETL that back to true/false
WORK SMART NOT HARD 😉
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foundeo
09/12/2022, 8:34 PM
there was a json cfc out there back in the days before they added the BIF, I’m sure you could find it on github somewhere (though it probably predates github, I’m sure someone put it on there at some point)
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websolete
09/12/2022, 8:39 PMi recall that cfc. i should probably just learn to accept yes and no as boolean statements and be happy about it
websolete
09/12/2022, 8:39 PMdo you swear to tell the YES, the whole YES, and nothing but the YES?
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foundeo
09/12/2022, 8:40 PM
ben has one… https://github.com/bennadel/JsonSerializer.cfc that was not the one I was thinking of, but it’s probably better
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websolete
09/12/2022, 8:41 PMwill check it out thanks.
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foundeo
09/12/2022, 8:50 PM
yeah this looks promising for ya:
asBoolean( key ) - Attempts to force the value to be a true boolean.3 Views