Invalid JSON in the API

[juantrias]

http://liveresultat.orientering.se/api.php?method=getcompetitions is now serving an invalid JSON because of a tab character inside " BEL_Ve Sprint Rocourt" competition. Tab characters and other special characters should be escaped on JSON when used inside strings https://www.freeformatter.com/json-escape.html.

I suppose that using json_encode to build the JSON as suggested in #43 should solve the problem. Otherwise you would have to manually escape this special chars before building the JSON.

[eVe9n]

I have the same issue with another competition.

[petlof]

Thanks for reporting this. The whole API is under reconstruction where there will be a lot more and better validation on these issues. What is the eventid you have issues with? Den fre 1 okt. 2021 kl 13:52 skrev eVe9n ***@***.***>:

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[eVe9n]

Sorry I didn't save the eventid I remember the name started with MTBO. Right now it doesn't return any error.

[eVe9n]

I have the same issue with another competition: "id":22247, "name":" Mistrovství ČR ve sprintu"

Also, It's difficult to me if the JSON return a extra double quotes. For example in this competition: 2022-05-07 ДП 20-21 Средна дистанция / купа "Христо Ботев" БФО, Вариант5
Competition: "id":22509, "name":"ДП 20-21 Средна дистанция / купа ""Христо Ботев"""

[jsh-de]

Just found out the API to retrieve the events was delivering invalid JSON due to some events having TAB-characters (ASCII 9) in their name:
20411;DM, sprint, Västergötland[TAB];2021-09-11 00:00:00
21615;Barbate SUN-O Cup - Night+Classic[TAB];2022-02-12 00:00:00
28408;2[TAB]Купа knsb;2022-12-02 00:00:00

I cleaned up those events manually and so the JSON seems to be clean... for now. :)