Error parsing large files about jsonview

[bhollis]

Do you know if Firefox itself will parse that JSON (using JSON.parse)?

[bhollis]

Hmm, I can't reproduce this. I generated the JSON you described (with 318 instances of {"text":"There is an issue with the path"}) and it rendered fine. It works just as well with 3,180 instances.

[dabraham02124]

I don't know how to ask firefox to use JSON.parse. I'm more than willing to test it if you can point me in the right direction.

Is there a way to turn on debugging or something so that jsonview will say "firefox isn't doing its part, aborting" or something?

And hmm, When I saw a coworker have the same issue (on a different OS and everything) I thought for sure it wasn't just me. Well, I mean, it isn't just me, but I thought it meant it was nigh universal. But not for you. I wonder why not. I've tried this before, but I'll try to be a bit more rigorous getting a clean firefox, installing this one extension, and seeing what happens.

Thank you very much.

[bhollis]

Just open the JS console or Firebug, put your JSON in a string, and call JSON.parse on it.

If you have the actual JSON file, that might help me debug it - I tried making one like you describe, but it didn't work. You can just post it as a Gist.

[dabraham02124]

I figured it out. Sorry, it's not a jsonView thing, it's a servlet thing.

I replaced this:
PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
writer.println(json);
response.setContentType("application/json");

with this:
response.setContentType("application/json");
PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
writer.println(json);

over 16K characters it will chunk the response and send the first chunk down while letting the servlet do other things to the HttpServletResponse. So you have to set the type before you write the response.

This is NOT a bug in jsonView, but it should probably be mentioned in a faq or something.

Again, thank you very much.