Question

I know that in java when you wish to use quotation marks in a string you should do something like this: private String quotationMarks = "\"";
It’s all great when working in eclipse – but here is the thing: I have a method that returns a string – with quotation marks in it; and when I invoke this method by REST (curl) I see the back-slash as well. Say my method returned the following string: what a good "day" – then when I invoke this method by curl – I get what a great \"day\" and that’s not good for me.
Why is that and how can I avoid this back-slash to be returned?

Answer 1

As the key-value in JSON are double-quoted in format {“text”:”what a good day”}. So, if there is already a quoted string in value, the json builder library you are using will automatically add escape charater before double quotes.
Eg. in your case

{“text”:”what a good \”day\””} – valid json

{“text”:”what a good “day””} – invalid json

You can check validity of your json at JSONLint