Some sort of JSON interpretation problem in newsfeed module

fribse

I’ve been struggling with an external compliments file for some time, and after another user posted his on gist, I took the liberty to use that as a test, and then compared the two.

I couldn’t get mine to work at all, but the other worked fine.
By changing the indentation to three spaces, it worked. It was two spaces.
This is a really odd problem, there is no standard to my knowledge for JSON that sets it at specific three spaces?

So this didn’t work:

{
   "anytime" : [
      "Jeg beundrer,\nat du altid er helt dig selv",
      "Man bliver så glad af\nat være sammen med dig",
...

But this does

{
    "anytime" : [
        "Jeg beundrer,\nat du altid er helt dig selv",
        "Man bliver så glad af\nat være sammen med dig",
...

I think that is really odd.

Furthermore I had to remember the quotes around the key, which isn’t needed in the internal list, but if I read it right, it must have quotes in a proper json file.

sdetweil

@fribse all things must be quoted in json, JavaScript only the right side of : needs quoting

I use an online JSON validator to check my JSON files. this is my go-to
https://codebeautify.org/jsonvalidator?/jsonvalidate
click the top left corner and it will format the content. great for understanding API returns

I have never seen spaces make a difference

maybe there is a tab in there?

sdetweil

@fribse u could also copy the default from the doc, or the module source too

fribse

@sdetweil Hey Sam

I only wrote the thing with the quotes as the internal config seems to be a bit more leniant.
No tabs, the ONLY thing I did to make it work, was add an extra space :-)
My config is so old by now, that every time I look at it, I have to rethink everything to get to the same result :-D

sdetweil

@fribse if u run it thru the validator, does it work?