Yajl::ParseError: lexical error: invalid character inside string.

[targence]

Hi

I'm trying to perform this request @app.groups.getById(gids:"23201, 23202, 23203",fields:"country,city")

It's returning error.

Yajl::ParseError: lexical error: invalid character inside string.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!","screen_name":"club23202","
(right here) ------^

from /Users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.1.0/lib/yajl.rb:36:in `parse'
from /Users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.1.0/lib/yajl.rb:36:in `parse'
from /Users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/vkontakte_api-0.2.1/lib/vkontakte_api/api.rb:22:in `call'
from /Users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/vkontakte_api-0.2.1/lib/vkontakte_api/resolver.rb:48:in `method_missing'
from (irb):11
from /Users/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'

Any idea to fix it?

[7even]

Hello.

Thanks, I was just searching for the API method causing this error. @nemilya found out that VK sometimes returns JSON that Yajl cannot parse. So I'll use another parser in 1.0 version of vkontakte_api which I'm working on currently.

Just checked several parsers with this task, and only Oj succeeded, though it doesn't symbolize keys.

Do you need a quick fix for that? I don't think I'll release 1.0 in a few days so I can do a 0.3 with Oj dependency.

[7even]

I've fixed the problem in 1.0 branch (by switching to Oj parser), so if you need it right now you can simply put the following in your Gemfile:

# Gemfile
gem 'vkontakte_api', github: '7even/vkontakte_api', branch: '1.0'

[targence]

Thanks. It's works for me.