How to construct json using JsonBuilder with key and value having same name?
import groovy.json.JsonBuilder
def userId = 12 // some user id obtained from else where.
def json = new JsonBuilder()
def root = json {
userId userId
}
print json.toString()
Which produces the error
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: java.lang.Integer.call() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.Integer) values: [12] Possible solutions: wait(), any(), abs(), wait(long), wait(long, int), and(java.lang.Number)
Quoting the key does has no effect. Any idea how to make this work.
Edit:
I want the JSON to be like { userId: 12 }
. Also, why does writing the key as string not work?
long userId = 12
def json = new JsonBuilder()
def root = json {
"userId" userId
}
The example provided is just a snippet. The situation is that I have a lot of controller actions, which has various variables already. Now I am adding a part where I am trying to create a JSON string with various values the variables hold. So it's not very practical to change existing variable names and if I could construct the JSON string with the same name, it would be more consistent. Writing accessor methods for all the variables I wanted is also not an elegant method. What I did at present is to use different naming scheme like user_id
for userId
but again, it's not consistent with rest of the conventions I follow. So I am looking for an elegant approach and the reason why JsonBuilder
behaves in this manner.
In case of JavaScript,
var a = 1
JSON.stringify({a: a}) // gives "{"a":1}"
which is the expected result.