sax filter escaping xml characters in smooks. how to overcome this issue.

[Rakshitha Shetty]

am using smooks_1.4.0.wso2.jar that comes along with the wso2 esb-4.8.1.

I have this code snippet in my smooks config

<params>

    <param name="stream.filter.type">SAX</param>

</params>

this is escaping xml special characters from my csv payload while converting it into json.

Could you please help me find a work around for this.

I know removing the SAX filter would avoid escaping but i need SAX filter since i have a really huge csv data.

[Tom Fennelly]

You mean it is leaving xml entities in the generated JSON? If so, that's more of an issue with the JSON generation, I would think. Hmmm ... did you look for help from the wso2 people?

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[Rakshitha Shetty]

Tom Fennelly,

Thanks for your response.

No it is escaping the xml entities in the generated JSON.

like i have a payload which says user first name is tina's

the json output gives it as { first_name: tina&amp;s }

this is nothing to do with the JSON generation. 

json generation is fine in places where i am not using a sax filter

I went through few more articles that said SAX filter would escape the xml characters.

below links are for your reference

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26265389/how-do-i-stop-smooks-from-escaping-ampersand

http://milyn.996300.n3.nabble.com/How-do-I-prevent-smooks-from-escaping-ampersands-td8930.html

and finally  i have not got in touch with wso2 people yet.

[Tom Fennelly]

That's actually what I mean. The fact that the SAX filter is producing entity references is actually right. If something after that step in the process wants to output that data in a different format (in your case JSON), then it's the responsibility of that something to remove entities or other that are not right for that format. I hope I'm making sense.

So ... you need some way of stripping the entities before they make it into the JSON. I think you need to talk to your wso2 contacts about that.

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[Rakshitha Shetty]

Oh okay. Let me check that out from my wso2 contacts. Thank you so much for the response.

On Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 5:29:42 PM UTC+5:30, Tom Fennelly wrote:

That's actually what I mean. The fact that the SAX filter is producing entity references is actually right. If something after that step in the process wants to output that data in a different format (in your case JSON), then it's the responsibility of that something to remove entities or other that are not right for that format. I hope I'm making sense.

So ... you need some way of stripping the entities before they make it into the JSON. I think you need to talk to your wso2 contacts about that.

On 25 January 2017 at 11:27, Rakshitha Shetty <srakshit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tom Fennelly,

Thanks for your response.

No it is escaping the xml entities in the generated JSON.

like i have a payload which says user first name is tina's

the json output gives it as { first_name: tina&amp;s }

this is nothing to do with the JSON generation. 

json generation is fine in places where i am not using a sax filter

I went through few more articles that said SAX filter would escape the xml characters.

below links are for your reference

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26265389/how-do-i-stop-smooks-from-escaping-ampersand

http://milyn.996300.n3.nabble.com/How-do-I-prevent-smooks-from-escaping-ampersands-td8930.html

and finally  i have not got in touch with wso2 people yet.

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