Error with content() for JSON response

[loganlinn]

I am getting an error with latest httr version when calling content on a JSON response. Here's a small reproduction:

> httr::content(
+   httr::GET("https://status.github.com/api/status.json", encoding="UTF-8"),
+   type = "application/json",
+   simplifyVector = TRUE
+ )
Error in simplify(obj, simplifyVector = simplifyVector, simplifyDataFrame = simplifyDataFrame,  :
  unused argument (encoding = NULL)

The error will actually go away if I don't use simplifyVector argument. But I think the real issue is lies in this change: f0fc278#diff-de09a71ef56d7758b0d08b98fe0520eaL68

The encoding argument was removed from function signature and now gets passed to jsonlite::fromJSON. If I put encoding = NULL back in that signature, ie removing it from ..., I no longer get the error

[s-r-k]

I am still receiving this error. Actually I am using another package that internally uses httr. Any workarounds? When can the solution be expected?

[alexdeng]

+1. hitted the same issue.

[maju116]

+1

[MarcinKosinski]

+1

[jeroen]

This needs to be fixed, but generally it is safer to extract the text and pass it to the parser yourself:

req <- httr::GET("https://status.github.com/api/status.json")
text <- httr::content(req, "text", encoding="UTF-8")
data <- jsonlite::fromJSON(text)

[potockan]

+1