Encode string as json string

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 February 2016 at 14:09:04 UTC, tcak wrote:
> Other than generating normal JSON content (stringify), JSON 
> string is used for Javascript string expressions as well.
>
> To create a properly encoded Javascript string, the shortest 
> way is
>
> JSONValue("this'\\is//the\"text").toString();
>
> Yes, it works, but it is uncomfortable to write the code as 
> above. Two issues:
>
> 1. It creates a struct, and there are extra processing in the 
> background (check the source code for this.)
>
> 2. It is really long.
>
> std.json already has a string encoding function in it, but it 
> is not exposed outside.
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/json.d#L1002
>
> It would be quite useful to expose this function for ease of 
> use. Any thoughts?

I've been using http://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json 
instead, and it's in the running to be a replacement for std.json 
(though I don't know quite what the status of all that it is; it 
was reviewed but still had work it needed IIRC). It's worked well 
enough for me and might do better for you than std.json. I don't 
know though. I pretty much only use JSON when I have to.

- Jonathan M Davis