JSON, replace quotes and slashes, but by what?

Question

I have the ungrateful task to build a JSON String in Java, manually, without any framework, just a StringBuilder. I know this is bad, but it is only part of a prototype, I w

Answer 1

"\"Some text WITH quotes\", slashes: /foo and backslashes \\foo"

translates to:

"Some text WITH quotes", slashes: /foo and backslashes \foo

You can use StringEscapeUtils.escapeJavaScript() in apache-commons Lang 2.6 or StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScript() in 3.4 to do the hard-work of escaping for you.