[cl-json-devel] Parsing JavaScript data

[Andrei Stebakov]

I was sending the string I mentioned starting with "var Categories = ....".
Looks like I somehow need to translate the Categories and DB to some json
tree, but I don't know how to do it.
For output I need a lisp list/tree structure describing the same data
something like
'(:category "Cat1" (:name "Item1" :item-num 8) (:name "Item2" :iten-num 9)).
Should I resort to flex/bison or I can just use the libraries
available for common lisp?

Thank you,
Andrew

On 6/10/08, Henrik Hjelte <henrik at evahjelte.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, what exactly are you parsing?
> Javascript? No in that case it can't be parsed. Not that json is not
> javascript, it is a subset of the javascript object notation.
>
> What exaclty are you sending, in a string, to lisp?
>
> Categories is an array, and DB is an object, so both have to be
> encoded to json. I would use some json client side library for that
> purpose. They are all around, in Dojo or Prototype or stand alone.
>
> Best wishes,
> Henrik Hjelte
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Andrei Stebakov <lispercat at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have a web page which has a JavaScript defining some data in a form:
> >
> > var Categories = [
> >               {name:"Cat1 ", caption:escape("Category 1")},
> >               {name:"Cat2 ", caption:escape("Category 2")}
> >
> >                ];
> >
> >       var DB = new Object();
> >       DB[Categories[0].name] = [
> >            {name:escape("Item1"), item-num:8}
> >         ];
> >
> > etc...
> >
> >
> > When I try to parse it with cl-json (using decode-json-from-string), I
> got
> > errors because it can't accept things like variable definitions.
> > Can I use cl-json to create a CL data from the JS data I mentioned or I
> > should use some other tool?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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