json `to nuon` escapes quotes

[tryoxiss]

json `to nuon` escapes quotes

[tryoxiss]

Ahh, thank you! I wasn't entirely sure if this is correct but it felt really weird to me so I decided to report it. Maybe adding something to the manual page would be good and help explain it though.

[crides]

I think this is correct behaviour. { a: 1, b: 2, c: "str" } is a record literal (which is a record). It is in nuon format, but it is not a serialized nuon string.

Same distinction between a JSON string in Javascript and a Javascript object.

Here, to nuon just serializes the JSON string into nuon format (as a string)

[IanManske]

Yep, see crides' explanation.

The following code can accomplish what you intended:

{ a: 1, b: 2, c: "str" } | to json | from json | to nuon

• to json takes a nushell value and returns a JSON string
• from json deserializes a JSON string to a nushell value
• to nuon takes a nushell value and returns a nuon string