On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Andrei Stebakov <lispercat@gmail.com> wrote:
I was sending the string I mentioned starting with "var Categories = ....".
ok, that was javascript source code, not json. When it is evaluated, it becomes a javascript array. That array can be encoded to Json, for that you need a javascript library to do the encoding. Look at www.json.org for a description of json and for available libraries, I believe that all major javascript frameworks have a json encoder. For example if you have prototype it adds a method to all arrays: var hello=[{a:2,b:3}]; console.log(hello.toJSON());
var hello=[{a:2,b:3}]; console.log(hello.toJSON()); [{"a": 2, "b": 3}] (output from Firebug, not the quotes around a and b when it is JSON)
Looks like I somehow need to translate the Categories and DB to some json tree, but I don't know how to do it.
I would look at the test cases for cl-json, they explain fairly well how to do encoding and decoding.
Should I resort to flex/bison or I can just use the libraries available for common lisp?
I don't know anything about flex or bison. But I say it is early to give up at this state, so far the problem has not been with cl-json. Good luck, Henrik