Question

I have a complex JSON I return it to view and in the view I am trying to just print some values but they are printed out with “”.

#{list items:hotels.results, as:'hotel'}

    ${hotel.name}

#{/list}

so for instance hotel name will be "Golder Hotel" (but it should be Golder Hotel).

Is there any way to escape quotes (instead of doing replace("\"",""))?

Answer 1

Don’t use replace("\"",""), because if your string is I said, "Good night", it will be I said, Good night, and you lose your full message.

Actually, in your example, hotel is JSONObject, and hotel.name is JSONString (not String). When you write ${hotel.name}, Play! implicit that ${hotel.name.toString()}, and JSONString will be add quote.

So, to solve this problem, you need to write ${hotel.getAsString("name")}

I think it’s helpful.