Some endpoint fields return backslash-escaped data

[d...@danmatthews.me]

Hi Guys.

Most notably, this has happened to me on the 'notes' field of a 'Candidate', if you add a string that contains an apostrophe or another typical character that requires escaping by a database, it'll return that string, escaped with a backslash:

Is this the actual desired behavior? As i don't think users of the API should have to deal with unescaping returned data.

Thanks,

Dan.

[Anthony Allan]

Hey Dan,

The raw json that is sent by the API does not escape single quotes. That is something that is being done by whatever client you are using to process the API's response is doing.

[d...@danmatthews.me]

Thanks Anthony, i noticed that it was returning even in a CURL request, but that may have been because of the double-encoding issue, i'll check it out. Thanks for the response.

Dan.

[Anthony Allan]

If you're seeing the backslash in the cURL, it's possible that the data was inserted with a backslash in the first place.