JSONitem.ToString in the Debugger

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Necro’ing Mike D’s old post

2018R2 : JSONItem in the debugger

I’m seeing some cases where a JSONItem’s ToString value in the debugger is blank. I think this stared around 2018R2, but I’m not sure. A simple test like this seems fine: dim foo as new JSONItem foo.value("x") =42 dim bar as new JSONItem bar.Append 123 bar.append 234 foo.value("bar") = bar break // look at foo in the debugger But in a real-world example of much more complexity, the Debugger shows .ToString as blank (and clicking on the value shows a 0 byte string). Anyone else seeing this? E…

with new information, in case it helps someone in the future. I was experiencing the same issue and found that the problem lay in the fact that the keys and values I was assigning to my JSONItem using the Value method had come via a BinaryStream and hence had no or incorrect encoding.

The JSONItem actually worked in my code, I just couldn’t see its contents in the debugger’s ToString view, and accessing its ToString caused an exception. After converting the keys’ and values’ encoding to UTF-8 prior to using Value, all works as expected.