I am trying to send the following parameters to a server through HTTP POST:
["my_session_id","{this=that, foo=bar}"]
But the server is returning a parse error because of the quotes around the hash.
I am trying to remove them with a regex like so:
params.replaceAll("\\\"\\{", "\\{");
params.replaceAll("\\\"\\}", "\\}");
In all honestly I have no idea what I'm doing. Please help.
Thanks in advance!
There's two issues here: First, you're not re-assigning the string. Strings are immutable in Java (cannot be changed), so you must assign the result. Second, you're replacing "} instead of }".
Here's what I used:
String params = "[\"my_session_id\",\"{this=that, foo=bar}\"]";
params = params.replaceAll("\\\"\\{", "\\{");
params = params.replaceAll("\\}\\\"", "\\}");
System.out.println(params);
Which prints out:
["my_session_id",{this=that, foo=bar}]
PS: Bit of advice, use JSON. Android has excellent JSON handling, and it is supported in PHP as well.
/'s in params created by toString() ?
"s when I created the string. In my code, params is initially equal to ["my_session_id","{this=that, foo=bar}"], just like yours.Is there a reason you are using the regular expression replaceAll? Alternatively, you might try:
String parameters = parameters.replace("{", "\\{").replace("}", "\\}");
