Hi, My hypothesis was closer to Erik's but I thought that being a JSON taken from Wikimedia API, it should be correct. I didn't realize that I converted it to STON to preserve line breaks and improve diff friendliness. After using `STON fromString:` as advised by Peter, everything worked well. Thanks everyone for their timely "wisdom nuggets". I learned a little by with each message here. Cheers, Offray On 8/02/20 5:35 a. m., Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

Hi,

Like Erik says the input is indeed illegal JSON. JSON strings are delimited using double quotes not single quotes. There is no way around this, this is not optional.

As Peter says, STON is more flexible. STON itself uses single quotes to be closer to Smalltalk. STON in its JSON compatibility mode does also recognise double quotes. So the class STONReader supports both, without further configuration.

Sven

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On 8 Feb 2020, at 10:34, PBKResearch <peter@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote:

Offray

I have a workaround, not an explanation. I don't use NeoJSON, because for me the JSON facilities of STON are sufficient. So I tried you script with 'NeoJSONReader fromString:' replaced by 'STON fromString:' - everything worked perfectly, no parsing error. So clearly there is nothing wrong with your input file. If you have STON installed, or think it worth installing, this could get you moving.

HTH

Peter Kenny

-----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas Sent: 08 February 2020 07:38 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: [Pharo-users] NeoJSONParseError: invalid input: ' while parsing a Wikipedia exported article.

Hi,

I'm trying to read the contents of a Wikipedia article that was exported from there using Wikipedias JSON API.

The script I'm trying is:

NeoJSONReader fromString: 'https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/pharopedia/doc/tip/docs/wikipedia.org/wiki/...' asUrl retrieveContents utf8Decoded

But I get "NeoJSONParseError: invalid input: '". As far as I can tell, the file at [1] seems like valid JSON, as is the one that Wikipedia API exports

[1] 'https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/pharopedia/doc/tip/docs/wikipedia.org/wiki/...'

Could anybody point me to a solution?

Thanks,

Offray