Json is being quoted and escaped, when calling remote function.

Communities CommandBox CLI
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Not sure whether the issue here is Lucee or Undertow or maybe something else.

I am making a call to a remote function in a CFC.

`
function getReport(type) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
periodType = type;
alert(this.responseText);
alert(typeof this.responseText);
var graphObj = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
alert(typeof graphObj);
if (graphObj.hasOwnProperty(“RETSTATUS”))
{
document.getElementById(‘errorMessage1’).innerHTML = ‘

’ + graphObj.RETSTATUS + ‘:
’ + graphObj.RETMESSAGE + ’
 
’ + graphObj.RETEXTRATEXT + ‘
’;
} else {
updateLineChart(graphObj, type);
updatePieChart(graphObj, type);
updateBarChart(graphObj, type);
updateReportTable(graphObj);
document.getElementById(‘errorMessage1’).innerHTML = ‘’;
}
}
};
xhttp.open(“GET”, “…/pathto.cfc?method=getReport&type=” + type + “&endDateTime=” + document.getElementById(‘endDate’).value + “&id=” + new Date().getTime(), true);
xhttp.setRequestHeader(“Content-Type”, “application/json”);
xhttp.send();
}

`

On Adobe I get back something like this from the three alerts:

{"TOTAL":{"AMOUNT":5318.51,"COUNT":43.0},"AMOUNT":[2.31,0.00,97.64,0.00,18.18,4.16,0.00,2255.66,2.21,2930.26,8.09],"LABEL":["May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec","Jan","Feb","Mar"],"COUNT":[1,0,12,0,6,1,0,7,1,10,5]} string object

Just what I would expect.

But using Lucee on commandbox I get back a string with surrounding quotes and escaped double quotes:

`

“{“COUNT”:[2],“TOTAL”:{“COUNT”:2,“AMOUNT”:1.86},“LABEL”:[2016],“AMOUNT”:[1.86]}”
string
string

`

And the resulting string does not get parsed into a java object.

Any idea what is going on here?

2

Just noticed something strange, If I change the returnFormat of function being called from json to plain it works properly.

<cffunction name="getReport" access="remote" returnformat="json"> to <cffunction name="getReport" access="remote" returnformat="plain">

3

Please dis-regard this post. The problem is clearly a difference in the way Lucee serializes json.