TreePanel - JSON leaf value with quotes (not boolean) issue

[thameema]

Hello all,
This must be micro bug in TreePanel but its causing issues.
I am returning a JSON data to TreeLoader to TreePanel which contains "leaf":"false" which suppose to render the tree element as "folder" but because of double quotes around "false" its not taking the value. If i remove the quotes (ie, "leaf":false) it works. I searched this forum for specific issues and no one reported this as issue. Anyone facing same issue???

I am using json.org java libraries to create the JSON object.

Thanks,
Thameem

[Animal]

Surely that's expected. The property is being set to a string. An if test on a non-empty string is true.

[BernardChhun]

how would you interpret a true or false sentence with double quotes...?

the TreeNode's leaf attribute takes a boolean...not a string who could be interpreted as a boolean with quotes.

[thameema]

My question is, as per JSON notation everything should be a string...So, the json.org json library is returning that as string... I am not sure how to handle this??? or is that to be fixed in the yui-ext tree code?

[BernardChhun]

My question is, as per JSON notation everything should be a string...So, the json.org json library is returning that as string... I am not sure how to handle this??? or is that to be fixed in the yui-ext tree code?

really? I'm not even using that library...
here's what I get for a TreeNode using python's JSON encoder:

{"text": "Appartement-Condominium", "leaf": true, "id": "genres/residentiel/0101"}

you could hack it yourself in yui-ext...but it might take a while to find out where to do it so for now I'd hack your json library if I were you.

[Animal]

@thameema:

I don't think that's valid.

To my mind "Javascript Object Notation" is javascript syntax. It's the javascript source representation of an object. So a quoted string is a quoted string. Regardless of what it contains.

{ foo: "1" }

Means that the foo property is a string, and not a number.

[thameema]

I was wrong. It was caused by the apache commons BeanUtils class which I use to convert a bean to a map then creating the JSONObject. So, that conversion is making everything to String eventhough i set the value as boolean in my bean. Now i hacked that part and everything works.

Thanks,
Thameem