need help regarding double quotes in string

[alan....@bellaliant.net]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm trying to get familiar working with GSON and have attempted the following:

 

output out = new output();

String row0 = "[\"LASTNAME\":\"MacDonald\",\"FIRSTNAME\":\"Terry\",\"EMAIL\":\"tmacd...@someplace.com\"]";
String row1 = "[\"LASTNAME\":\"Fisher\",\"FIRSTNAME\":\"Joyce\",\"EMAIL\":\"jfi...@someplace.com\"]";

out.aaData.add(row0);
out.aaData.add(row1);
    
Gson gson = new Gson();
String json = gson.toJson(out);  
System.out.println( json );

 

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public class output{

      public String id = "";
      public String error = "";
      public ArrayList<FieldError> fieldErrors = new ArrayList<FieldError>();
      public ArrayList<String[]> data = new ArrayList<String[]>();
      public ArrayList<String[]> row = new ArrayList<String[]>();
      public ArrayList<String> aaData = new ArrayList<String>();

      ...

}

 

The output for this winds up being:

 

{"id":"","error":"","fieldErrors":[],"data":[],"row":[],"aaData":[

[\"LASTNAME\":\"MacDonald\",\"FIRSTNAME\":\"Terry\",\"EMAIL\":\"tmacd...@someplace.com\"],
[\"LASTNAME\":\"Fisher\",\"FIRSTNAME\":\"Joyce\",\"EMAIL\":\"jfi...@someplace.com\"]]}

 

I expected the escaped character "\" to disappear and just leave the double quote, but it didn't.  The format must be: "field_name":"field_value" .  I even tried escaping the escape character with \\" and even \\\".  None of these worked.  What do I need to do to get the format I want?  Please advise.

 

Alan