Hello Christian,

Thanks for the response. I figured out how to get around my issue. Add the method="text" attribute to the http:body.

<http:body media-type="application/json" method="text">{json:serialize($body)}</http:body>

- James

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:

Hi James,

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I am however having an issue when posting JSON with markup in it. For example:

I tried to reproduce your example, but it didn't work out. It seems you were storing data in a database, right? Will the data be stored in a wrong format, or is the subsequent output (serialization) that gives wrongly escaped results? Could you possibly give me a little complete example that we can try out?

Thanks in advance, Christian

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let $out := map { name: 'myView', markup: "<div name='value'>Some other stuff</div>" }

http:send-request(<http:request method="POST" />, uri, $out)

The issue is that the resulting JSON body being posted has the 'markup' property xml escaped. IE:

{ "name": "myView", "markup": "&lt;div name='value'&gt;Some other ..... " }

I had a similar issue with file:write but resolved that by using file:write-string.

I have tried calling json:serialize on $out manually as well as declaring the option output:method to 'json'. I even tried changing the request

object

...

by inserting a http:body. IE:

<http:request method="GET"> <http:body content-type="application/json"> {json:serialize($out)}

</http> </http>

Lastly, I have tried declaring the cdata-section option: declare option output:cdata-section-elements 'http:body';

Still no go...

Is this not possible? One option would be to serialize the content using file:write and then call curl. This is a workaround I have used in the

past

...

however I was hoping I was behind that now with the latest improvements

to

...

XQuery 3.1. Maybe I need to send the http:request object as a map

instead of

...

an xml node?

Thanks again for your time on all of this.

• James