Does not load json objects with escaped characters

[adamweeks]

Currently, on version 0.2.3, when loading a json fixture that contains an escaped character, it will not load the fixture and returns an empty array.

For example, loading myFixtureBroken.json:

{ "myLink":"<a href=\"link.url\">Link</a>"}

returns Array[0].

This can be worked around by escaping the escapes though:

{ "myLink":"<a href=\\\"link.url\\\">Link</a>"}

It will load the object fine.

[robomalo]

Confirmed.

Escaping escapes doesn't work for me though... just getting empty [].

[sidferreira]

For me some json are loaded and some aren't. Still trying to figure out a pattern... Seem that there's any sort of validation with weird rules...

[billtrik]

Hello everyone. Please if you come across a non loading json fixture, please post it here as @adamweeks has already done. The problem should be the escaping as pointed out. Let's see where that leads us

[nzakas]

This may be an issue with using html2js to load the JSON file which, as best I can tell, html2js was never intended to do. Here's what I think is happening:

html2js injects file contents into a string that is then dumped into the page (https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-html2js-preprocessor/blob/master/lib/html2js.js#L6). So if your for contains this:

{"foo":"\"bar\""}

Then it outputs:

window.__html__['foo.json'] = '{"foo":"\"bar\""}';

The \", because it's embedded in a string, is interpreted as just " per JavaScript escaping rules, so the actual string content is this:

{"foo":""bar""}

Of course, that is not valid JSON, so we get an explosion.

So, unless we can get html2js to change what they are doing, or we use a different preprocessor to load JSON files, there's no real way to fix this on our end. There's just no way we can know which quotes were meant to be escaped and which were not.

[billtrik]

@everyone please install version 0.2.5 and follow updated instructions regarding the setup of karma-json-fixtures-preprocessor plugin.

[adamweeks]

Awesome! Thanks @billtrik!