unable to access JSONObject in sightly html file

I agree with you and it's one of many reason I do JAVA and not .Net, because you can use and mix different API.

I just start with sightly instead of doing everything with a JSP, and was a litlle upset to not understand why an API from Google works better than an API from Apache in AEM

that is the nice thing about AEM - you are not bound to a specific API. Its essentially a JAVA platform, so you can use a specific Java API that will solve your business requirements.

A rule is the Java API must be in a OSGi bundle and in an active state so other bundles can use that API.

We have an article that shows use of the GSON API in a Java backend:

Scott's Digital Community: Creating an AEM HTML Template Language Component that displays data from a Restful Web Servic…

I got the same issue, I spent one day to understand why I'm unable to get the value of a JsonObject in sightly (only key) if the JsonObject come a java code with org.apache.sling.commons.json.JSONObject;

At the end I end up with another solution than the use of Gson api.

I used a JS conversion between java and sightly. I gave my Java JsonObject to a Javascript method JSON.parse()

something like:

html

<sly data-sly-use.greatdeals="GreatDeals" />

    <sly data-sly-use.greatdealsJS="${'greatdeals.js' @ jsonString=greatdeals.jsonGreatDeals}" />

<sly data-sly-list.deal="${greatdealsJS}">

    <div>${deal} : ${greatdealsJS[deal]}</div>

</sly>

greatdeal.js:

use(function () {

    return JSON.parse(this.jsonString);

});

GreatDeals

public JSONObject getJsonGreatDeals() {

        JSONObject jsonObject = null;

        try {

            jsonObject = new JSONObject();

            jsonObject.put("deal1", "test1");

            jsonObject.put("deal2", "test2");

            jsonObject.put("deal3", "test3");

        } catch (Exception e) {

            LOGGER.error("Could not create JSON", e);

        }

        return jsonObject;

    }

it's not beautiful but it works.

Thanks for sharing your solution 

Thanks for sharing it.

Helpful!!!

It is not possible to access JSONObject in Sightly. Check the below thread- 

http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__r2p9-is_there_a_waytous.html

Yes. I had the same feeling. Try using context="unsafe" while rendering json object. Just try that.

for instance 

${jsonObject @ context='unsafe'}

Jitendra

I already tried with jsp, it is working fine.When I tried to convert that jsp to sightly html file,I faced this issue.

Swathi,

I think the issue is not with the Sightly POJO file. Do you mind testing same thing with JSP?.  It is just a guess that something strange happening because of Sightly.

Jitendra