Convert JRuby string to Java byte array, and back again - jruby

I'm trying to pass a binary string in JRuby as a byte[] through some Java library and into JRuby again, where I want to convert it back into a string, but I can't figure out how to do it without the string getting messed up.
Specifically I'm encoding a Ruby hash as BSON and passing it over AMQP, but it's the conversion to and from byte[] that doesn't work. This code
import org.jruby.RubyString
blob = BSON.serialize({'test' => 123123123123}).to_s
p blob
p RubyString.bytes_to_string(RubyString.string_to_bytes(blob))
outputs
"\x13\x00\x00\x00\x12test\x00\xB3\xC3\xB5\xAA\x1C\x00\x00\x00\x00"
"\x13\x00\x00\x00\x12test\x00\xC2\xB3\xC3\x83\xC2\xB5\xC2\xAA\x1C\x00\x00\x00\x00"
I have also tried
java.lang.String.new(blob.to_java.bytes).to_s
but it outputs the same, wrong, string.
Is there any easier/safer way to convert to and from a JRuby string and byte[]?

I found the answer myself, turned out there was a #to_java_bytes on String, and a helper method .from_java_bytes that handle the conversion without issue:
blob = BSON.serialize({'test' => 123123123123}).to_s
p blob
p String.from_java_bytes(blob.to_java_bytes)

As mentioned already, this works:
irb(main):002:0> String.from_java_bytes(java_bytes)
=> "\x01\x02\x03"
But this also works:
irb(main):003:0> java_bytes.to_s
=> "\x01\x02\x03"
And I would argue that it's more sensible. :D

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selecting a key-value from API response

I have this response from an API:
payment_object = {'acquirer_response': '{"object":"transaction", "pix_expiration_date":"2022-04-28T13:46:01.000Z"}'}
how can i select the pix_expiration_date key??? I have tried:
payment_object['acquirer_response']['pix_expiration_date']
it doesnt work and it returns to me:
TypeError: string indices must be integers
Since you’re looking for json
Here’s a code you can start with, keep the good work :)
import json
#importing json
payment_object = {'acquirer_response': '{"object":"transaction", "pix_expiration_date":"2022-04-28T13:46:01.000Z"}'}
###
dic=json.loads(payment_object["acquirer_response"])
#loading the object
dic['pix_expiration_date']
#it will return 2022-04-28T13:46:01.000Z
Are you the owner of the api? If yes:
Edit the response, because it’s sending an string not an object/dictionary
If No:
Convert the string to an dictionary, like if you using python try json library
Your json is not valid. I don't know what language are you using, this code works for javascript, you can easily translate it to another language
var payment_object = {'acquirer_response': '{"object":"transaction", "pix_expiration_date":"2022-04-28T13:46:01.000Z"}'};
var s=JSON.stringify(payment_object).replaceAll("\\","").replaceAll("\"{","{").replaceAll("}\"","}");
var paymentObject=JSON.parse(s);
console.log(paymentObject['acquirer_response']['pix_expiration_date']); // 2022-04-28T13:46:01.000Z

Enumerating of JObject of NewtonSoft.Json loses '\' character in C#

I would like to parse json string using JObject.Parse() of NewtonSoft.Json. Assume that the json string is like this:
{"json":"{\"count\":\"123\"}"}
The result of jObject.First.ToString() is "json": "{\"count\":\"123\"}".
The result of jObject["json"].ToString() is {"count":"123"}. Enumerating gets the same result as this.
The testing code I used is like this.
[TestMethod()]
public void JsonParseTest()
{
var json = "{\"json\":\"{\\\"count\\\":\\\"123\\\"}\"}";
var jObject = JObject.Parse(json);
Console.WriteLine($"json : {json}");
Console.WriteLine($"jObject.First.ToString() : {jObject.First}");
Console.WriteLine($"jObject[\"json\"].ToString() : {jObject["json"]}");
}
We can see that enumerating of jObject will lose the character '\'. What is the problem? I would be appreciated for any suggestion :)
EDIT 1
The version of NewtonSoft is 12.0.3 released in 2019.11.09.
The parser isn't loosing anything. There is no literal \ in your example. The backslashes are purely part of the JSON syntax to escape the " inside the string vlue. The value of the key json is {"count":"123"}.
If you want to have backslashes in that value (however I don't see why you would want that), then you need add them, just like you added them in your C# string (C# and JSON happen to have the same escaping mechanism):
{"json":"{\\\"count\\\":\\\"123\\\"}"}
with leads to the C# code:
var json = "{\"json\":\"{\\\\\\\"count\\\\\\\":\\\\\\\"123\\\\\\\"}\"}";

Ballerina json datetime value

i have to index documents to elasticsearch to an index which has a date field mapping and i'm trying to build a json with this date value, but ballerina says this seems not possible.
I thought about storing this date value into an xml and after that to convert it to a json but xml has the same problem (i thought this might be a trick...).
I tried to store it into a string and after that to extract the json payload from that string but it gives me this error:
error: {ballerina/io}GenericError message=unrecognized token 'date=time=1591128342000'
I thought about dealing with this string to date conversion from inside elasticsearch but i would like to keep this scenario as the last one. I don't like it, beacause i have to do some queries based on timestamp after and storing date as a string would give me additional problems
So is there any way to trick ballerina in order to achive this json containing a date value ?
-----here is snapshot of the code giving me the error-----
It says:
incompatible types: expected 'json', found 'ballerina/time:Time'
JSON is a text format that is completely language independent (see e.g. json.org).
time:Time is a Ballerina language specific type JSON knows nothing about. Because there is no implicit conversion (for a good reason) one have to provide the conversion.
In this case you most likely want to convert time:Time to a ISO 8601 string presentation with time:toString.
The following code (Ballerina 1.2):
import ballerina/io;
import ballerina/time;
public function main() {
var btime = time:currentTime();
var j = <json> {
time: time:toString(btime)
};
io:println(j.toJsonString());
}
Correctly prints:
{"time":"2020-06-03T08:39:07.897+03:00"}
Maryam Ziyad has written a good introduction to Ballerina's JSON support.
The following code is updated for Ballerina Swan Lake Update 1 (2201.1.0) to show how to convert a Ballerina UTC time (time:Utc) to JSON representation. Note that it's also possible to use localized time (time:Civil) but that is no different from time to JSON conversion point of view.
One can read more about Ballerina time handling from the documentation of time module.
import ballerina/io;
import ballerina/time;
public function main() {
time:Utc now = time:utcNow(3);
json j = {
time: time:utcToString(now)
};
io:println(j.toJsonString());
}
That correctly prints:
{"time":"2022-07-20T06:03:46.078Z"}

JSON is printed with backslashes

{"externalQueryDate":"4018-11-23"}
this is my json string, which is in a column of mysql.
I get it with creditRisk.getCreditRiskDataCodeBased()
and in javascript or in swagger, i see with backslashes:
"{\"externalQueryDate\":\"4018-11-23\"}"
I can use JSON.parse in frontend but , i want to solve this is backend.
even
for
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
objectMapper.writer().writeValue(sw, creditRisk.getCreditRiskDataTermBased());
it writes this:
"responseCode": "\"{\\\"externalQueryDate\\\":\\\"4018-11-23\\\"}\""
I tried those
objectMapper.readTree(creditRisk.getCreditRiskDataCodeBased()).toString()
and
objectMapper.writer().writeValue(sw, creditRisk.getCreditRiskDataTermBased());
and
#JsonRawValue
#JsonValue
How can i solve this?
In mysql, it is also without slashes
If you want to parse the json string with jackson objectMapper you need to use 'read' and tell it what class to use to create the parsed object from.
So in your case you could do something like
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
String json = "{\"externalQueryDate\":\"4018-11-23\"}";
Map map = objectMapper.readValue(json, Map.class);
System.out.print(map.get("externalQueryDate"));
I've just used a Map here as I don't know what class you're wanting to parse the json into. If you have a class with an externalQueryDate field you can read into that. You could also use #JsonFormat on the field to tell it what the date format is if you want to parse the value straight into a LocalDate field.
I suggest you write a few simple unit tests to get the hang of escaped quotes in strings. It looks like they're causing you some confusion.

Ruby parse string to json

So I have some json that looks like this, which I got after taking it out of some other json by doing response.body.to_json:
{\n \"access_token\": \"<some_access_token>\",\n \"token_type\": \"Bearer\",\n \"expires_in\": 3600,\n \"id_token\": \<some_token>\"\n}\n"
I want to pull out the access_token, so I do
to_return = {token: responseJson[:access_token]}
but this gives me a
TypeError: no implicit conversion of Symbol into Integer
Why? How do I get my access token out? Why are there random backslashes everywhere?
to_json doesn't parse JSON - it does the complete opposite: it turns a ruby object into a string containing the JSON representation of that object is.
It's not clear from your question what response.body is. It could be a string, or depending on your http library it might have already been parsed for you.
If the latter then
response.body["access_token"]
Will be your token, if the former then try
JSON.parse(response.body)["access_token"]
Use with double quotes when calling access_token. Like below:
to_return = {token: responseJson["access_token"]}
Or backslashes are escaped delimiters and make sure you first parse JSON.