Some JSON confusion

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I just played around with some JSON.

retStr contains valid JSON:
{"workspaces":[{"id":3,"name":"Sample A","slug":"sample-a","vectorTag":null,"createdAt":"2025-03-02T09:22:57.830Z","openAiTemp":null,"openAiHistory":20,"lastUpdatedAt":"2025-03-02T09:22:57.830Z","openAiPrompt":null,"similarityThreshold":0.25,"chatProvider":null,"chatModel":null,"topN":4,"chatMode":"chat","pfpFilename":null,"agentProvider":null,"agentModel":null,"queryRefusalResponse":null,"vectorSearchMode":"default","threads":[]},{"id":4,"name":"Sample B","slug":"sample-b","vectorTag":null,"createdAt":"2025-03-02T09:43:51.654Z","openAiTemp":null,"openAiHistory":20,"lastUpdatedAt":"2025-03-02T09:43:51.654Z","openAiPrompt":null,"similarityThreshold":0.25,"chatProvider":null,"chatModel":null,"topN":4,"chatMode":"chat","pfpFilename":null,"agentProvider":null,"agentModel":null,"queryRefusalResponse":null,"vectorSearchMode":"default","threads":[]}]}

With

var:dictionary workSpaces = retStr.json[“workspaces”];

I would expect:

[{"id":3,"name":"Sample A","slug":"sample-a",...},{...}]

Instead I got:

[{id:3,name:"Sample A",slug:"sample-a",...},{...}]

This is no valid json anymore. Looks like a dictionary (I would like to continue to work with JSON. But this is like it is).

So something like:

$MyList = ;
retStr.json.each{$MyList += json[“slug”];}

will not work anymore. There is no key “slug” because the double quotes are missing.

So I switched to use a dictionary:

shouldn‘t

retStr[0]

return the first object - something like:

{"id":3,"name":"Sample A","slug":"sample-a",...}

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  1. retStr["key"] returns a Tinderbox dictionary not a json object.

  2. I don’t think we handle [n] operators on json dictionaries, only on lists.

  3. You could do retStr.workspaces.each(x){....} to collect the slugs.