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Converting JSONata to valid JSON

See original GitHub issue

Is there a way to convert JSONata string to valid JSON ? Assumption : JSONata string does not involve any function declarations.

Example :

    var script = `{
        "source": source,
        "data":
        {
            "name" : data.payload.Name.(FirstName & ' ' & LastName),    
            "alias": data.payload.Name.(Salutation & ' ' & FirstName),
            "active": data.payload.Status = 'New' ? true : false,
            "signature": "Have good day ," & data.payload.Name.FirstName & "!"  
        }       
    }`;

Is there a way to convert above to JSON like this :

{
  "source": "source",
  "data": {
    "name": "data.payload.Name.(FirstName %26 %27 %27 %26 LastName)",
    "alias": "data.payload.Name.(Salutation %26 %27 %27 %26 FirstName)",
    "active": "data.payload.Status = %27New%27 ? true : false",
    "signature": "%22Have good day ,%22 %26 data.payload.Name.FirstName %26 %22!%22"
  }
}

All special character has been encoded using escape() function in javascript.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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andrew-colemancommented, Sep 26, 2019

This feels like a Javascript discussion. I will close it here and let the discussion continue on stack overflow.

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UtsavChokshiCNUcommented, Sep 26, 2019

@jhorbulyk …

var script = `{
    "source": source,
    "data":
    {
    	"name" : data.payload.Name.(FirstName & ' ' & LastName),    
      "alias": data.payload.Name.(Salutation & ' ' & FirstName),
      "active": data.payload.Status = 'New' ? true : false,
      "email": data.payload.Email,
      "signature": "Have good day ," & data.payload.Name.FirstName & "!"
     }       
}`;

var x = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(script));
print(x);
print(x["data"]["name"]);

Gives error : TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined