Question

I have json data saved as a string in a database. The structure of JSON data is fine with the problem that it contains regex expressions and even urls which contains curry braces {} or square brackets [] etc. I can replace some of special symbols with the encodings available e.g hex or decimal encodings. and do string manipulations to take care of these. I was just wondering is there another way for handling this situation. I am getting following exception for the strings containing this type of Json data.

  org.json.JSONException: Expected a ',' or '}' at character 22891 of {"wires":[{"id"....so on

Please let me know if I need to elaborate more.

Answer 1

Here’s the first thing coming to my mind:
When putting the thing in the database try php addslashes/stripslashes (assuming you are using php to contact the database).