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improve "A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 1 of" error message #46

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ralfhauser opened this issue Aug 6, 2022 · 3 comments
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improve "A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 1 of" error message #46

ralfhauser opened this issue Aug 6, 2022 · 3 comments

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@ralfhauser
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at org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:463)
at org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONObject.(JSONObject.java:206)
at org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONObject.(JSONObject.java:313)

and then it cites the JSON where "{" is in the first position ?!?!

==> it turns out the by moving the json file from Windows to the invisble "\uFEFF" is prefixed (byte order mark (BOM))

==> please visualize that too !
@coheigea
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@ralfhauser Can you provide some sample json?

@NoelZehnder
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@coheigea You can find the mentiond json and a linux cmd for showing the invisible characters below:

@ralfhauser
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"cat -vte " shows you

grafik

@pzygielo pzygielo mentioned this issue Jan 9, 2023
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