Unescape from HTML and escape to JSON about he HOT 19 CLOSED

Can you give an example?

Use JSON.stringify() to generate JSON (and take care of escaping quotes in strings).

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take care of escaping quotes in strings

That's exactly what I want to automate :)

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Ok, I guess your issue is resolved then? :)

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No because I didn't found out how to automate string quote escaping

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I'm confused. I just told you that JSON.stringify does that for you.

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JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(val)) returns val

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It does indeed!

Again, can you give an example of what you're trying to do? Provide example input, desired output, and code you've tried so far.

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Here is a JSFiddle example : https://jsfiddle.net/KaKi87/56pbLtuf/

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How is the content inserted into the <pre>? Are you doing that on the server side?

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No, this is an example.
The original is a real JSON response, fetched using NodeJS request.
But, this fiddle have the same behavior as in my script. The point is that I can't auto-escape quotes inside JSON strings.

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The original is a real JSON response, fetched using NodeJS request.

If it's a proper JSON response, then JSON.parse would succeed, making it different from the demo you shared.

I'm still struggling to understand what you mean.

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Okay then try to parse this : https://trigedasleng.net/api/api?action=search&query=dei%20de

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Works for me:

(async () => {
  const response = await fetch('https://trigedasleng.net/api/api?action=search&query=dei%20de');
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log('Result:', data);
})();
// Result: {...}

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Okay but did you decoded the HTML entities ?

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To decode HTML entities in a string, use he.decode(string).

(async () => {
  const response = await fetch('https://trigedasleng.net/api/api?action=search&query=dei%20de');
  const data = await response.json();
  data.words = data.words.map((word) => {
    word.translation = he.decode(word.translation);
    return word;
  });
  console.log('Result:', data);
})();
// Result: {...}

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So, I must decode property by property ??

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Yeah. There's no way he or any other library can know which values need decoding and which do not; it depends on the use case.

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All I need is to automatically escape the " character

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It seems to me that you could use the string.replace method to replace any instance of " with \" in your server strings (if that is truly "all you need"). The he library is used to create and remove HTML entities, not to use \ to escape characters in strings.

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