Library to convert JSON to urlencoded

Question

We are doing some integration towards a quite inconsistent (Zurmo-)REST API. The API only accepts urlencoded strings as its payload in the http posts, but it answers with JSON.

Answer 1

As noted below, it's not a Java library but you should be able to translate it :)

Here's how you could do it in javascript:

var jsonArrayToUrl = function (obj, prefix) {
  var urlString = "";
  for (var key in obj) {
    if (obj[key] !== null && typeof obj[key] == "object") {
      prefix += "[" + key + "]";
      urlString += jsonArrayToUrl(obj[key], prefix);
    }else{
      urlString += prefix + "[" + key + "]=" + obj[key] + "&";
    }
  }
  return encodeURIComponent(urlString);
};

Then call it with

jsonArrayToUrl(test["data"], "data");

By the example string you gave above it returns

"data%5Bdescription%5D%3Dtest%26data%5BoccurredOnDateTime%5D%3D2013-10-24%2001%3A44%3A50%26"

It should work recursively on nested arrays. You might also consider writing a wrapper for the function so that you only need one argument.