Apple

This question concerns code for an applescript library once published by Shane Stanley i Macscripter’s forums so it is mainly directed to him – but of course others ar also welcome to answer!

The library in question, can among other things, be used to export JSON code from applescript.

I want to use that very JSON export function. It works fine, but I have one issue about the JSON output: All slashes in text content will be escaped

So for example an ftp uri will be written:

ftp:\/\/ftp.host.se

What i want is just:

ftp://ftp.host.se

Of course I can have a simple search & replace handle to take care if that – but can I instead tweak the Cocoa-related parts of the JSON export handler? I guess that would make the function faster. I know almost nothing about Cocoa. So, can you help me?

The handler I refer to is this:

-- pass a string, list, record or number, and either a path to save the result to, or missing value to have it returned as text

on convertASToJSON:someASThing saveTo:posixPath

--convert to JSON data

set {theData, theError} to current application's NSJSONSerialization's dataWithJSONObject:someASThing options:0 |error|:(reference)

if theData is missing value then error (theError's localizedDescription() as text) number -10000

if posixPath is missing value then -- return string

-- convert data to a UTF8 string

set someString to current application's NSString's alloc()'s initWithData:theData encoding:(current application's NSUTF8StringEncoding)

return someString as text

else

-- write data to file

theData's writeToFile:posixPath atomically:true

return result as boolean -- returns false if save failed

end if

end convertASToJSON:saveTo: