Simple way to remove escape characters from this JSON date

Question

In my android application, my JSON date is returned as this:

\/Date(1323752400000)\/

Is there a simple way to remove the escape characters? (This is being sent from a WCF service to an Android application). I am already using StringEscapeUtils.unEscapeHtml4 to decode the entire serialized object.

Solution 1

On the receiving end, if you really want to, you could just do myJsonString = myJsonString.replaceAll("\\","");

But do note that those escape characters in no way make the JSON invalid or otherwise semantically different -- the '/' character can be optionally escaped with '\' in JSON.

Solution 2

actully this not works as it throws java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException instead of using that use

  myJsonString=myJsonString.replaceAll("\\\\",""); 

it works fine

Solution 3

You can use Apache Commons lang:

StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava(stringToUnEscape);

Class Ref : https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html