Moya: mapString() adds extra quotes and backslashes

[peterwarbo]

When doing a GET (using Postman) request from my backend the string looks like this:

"En kort information om Passalen\r\n\r\nSer bra ut va? :)"

But after using this command to get the string:

let about = try moyaResponse.mapString()

Moya will transform the string and it will look like this:

\"En kort information om Passalen\\r\\n\\r\\nSer bra ut va? :)\"

How can I have the string unmodified?

[peterwarbo]

Anyone?

[ashfurrow]

Not sure, it looks like the \ in the original string are getting escaped – sometimes this happens with print. I've never used Postman, how are you getting the value returned from mapString()?

[peterwarbo]

What do you mean how I'm getting the value?

I'm just doing this:

do {
    let about = try moyaResponse.mapString()
} catch {
    print(error)
}

[ashfurrow]

And you're just using print(about)? I'm just wondering if it's actually working but print is doing something weird.

[peterwarbo]

No I'm debugging the code and checking the value of about

[peterwarbo]

Yes looks like the original '\' are getting escaped and also the '"'

Do you have a solution for this?

[ashfurrow]

I don't, I'm sure there are solutions to this. mapString's source code is pretty straightforward, this could be something with Alamofire. To be honest I'm not sure which direction you should go in, I would look up issues on Alamofire's repository and google how to prevent double-escaping. Sorry for not having a more satisfactory answer, please let us know how it goes 👍

[peterwarbo]

Seems that the response I got was content-type json so when I used mapJson() instead it was parsed correctly. Thanks for your help!

[ashfurrow]

Glad you got it sorted out, and thanks for following-up with the solution 👍 I'm sure it'll be of help to others.