title: Is there a way to return a JSON object within a xe:restViewColumn?
body: <p>I'm trying to generate a REST-Service on a XPage with the viewJsonService service type.</p>
  
  <p>Within a column I need to have a JSON object and tried to solve that with this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;xe:restViewColumn name="surveyResponse"&gt;
   &lt;xe:this.value&gt;
  &lt;![CDATA[#{javascript:
  var arrParticipants = new Array();
  
  arrParticipants.push({"participant": "A", "selection": ["a1"]});
  arrParticipants.push({"participant": "B", "selection": ["b1", "b2"]});
  
  return (arrParticipants);
  }
  ]]&gt;
  
   &lt;/xe:this.value&gt;
  &lt;/xe:restViewColumn&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was expecting to get this for that specific column:</p>
  
  <pre><code>...
  "surveyResponse": [
        { "participant": "A",
          "selection": [ "a1" ]
        },
        { "participant": "B",
          "selection": [ "b1", "b2" ]
        }
      ]
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I am getting is this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>...
  "surveyResponse": [
        "???",
        "???"
      ]
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When trying to use toJson for the array arrParticipants the result is not valid JSON format:</p>
  
  <pre><code>...
  "surveyResponse": "[{\"selection\": [\"a1\"],\"participant\":\"A\"},{\"selection\": [\"b1\",\"b2\"],\"participant\":\"B\"}]"
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When tyring to use fromJson for the array arrParticipants the result is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
     "code": 500,
     "text": "Internal Error",
     "message": "Error while executing JavaScript computed expression",
     "type": "text",
     "data": "com.ibm.xsp.exception.EvaluationExceptionEx: Error while executing JavaScript computed expression at com.ibm.xsp.binding.javascript.JavaScriptValueBinding.getValue(JavaScriptValueBinding.java:132) at com.ibm.xsp.extlib.component.rest.DominoViewColumn.getValue(DominoViewColumn.java:93) at com.ibm.xsp.extlib.component.rest.DominoViewColumn.evaluate(DominoViewColumn.java:133) at com.ibm.domino.services.content.JsonViewEntryCollectionContent.writeColumns(JsonViewEntryCollectionContent.java:213) at com.ibm.domino.services.content.JsonViewEntryCollectionContent.writeEntryAsJson(JsonViewEntryCollectionContent.java:191) at com.ibm.domino.services.content.JsonViewEntryCollectionContent.writeViewEntryCollection(JsonViewEntryCollectionContent.java:170) at com.ibm.domino.services.rest.das.view.RestViewJsonService.renderServiceJSONGet(RestViewJsonService.java:394) at com.ibm.domino.services.rest.das.view.RestViewJsonService.renderService(RestViewJsonService.java:112) at com.ibm.domino.services.HttpServiceEngine.processRequest(HttpServiceEngine.java:167) at com.ibm.xsp.extlib.component.rest.UIBaseRestService._processAjaxRequest(UIBaseRestService.java:242) at com.ibm.xsp.extlib.component.rest.UIBaseRestService.processAjaxRequest(UIBaseRestService.java:219) at com.ibm.xsp.util.AjaxUtilEx.renderAjaxPartialLifecycle(AjaxUtilEx.java:206) at com.ibm.xsp.webapp.FacesServletEx.renderAjaxPartial(FacesServletEx.java:225) at com.ibm.xsp.webapp.FacesServletEx.serviceView(FacesServletEx.java:170) at com.ibm.xsp.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:160) at com.ibm.xsp.webapp.FacesServletEx.service(FacesServletEx.java:138) at com.ibm.xsp.webapp.DesignerFacesServlet.service(DesignerFacesServlet.java:103) at com.ibm.designer.runtime.domino.adapter.ComponentModule.invokeServlet(ComponentModule.java:576) at com.ibm.domino.xsp.module.nsf.NSFComponentModule.invokeServlet(NSFComponentModule.java:1281) at com.ibm.designer.runtime.domino.adapter.ComponentModule$AdapterInvoker.invokeServlet(ComponentModule.java:847) at com.ibm.designer.runtime.domino.adapter.ComponentModule$ServletInvoker.doService(ComponentModule.java:796) at com.ibm.designer.runtime.domino.adapter.ComponentModule.doService(ComponentModule.java:565) at com.ibm.domino.xsp.module.nsf.NSFComponentModule.doService(NSFComponentModule.java:1265) at com.ibm.domino.xsp.module.nsf.NSFService.doServiceInternal(NSFService.java:653) at com.ibm.domino.xsp.module.nsf.NSFService.doService(NSFService.java:476) at com.ibm.designer.runtime.domino.adapter.LCDEnvironment.doService(LCDEnvironment.java:341) at com.ibm.designer.runtime.domino.adapter.LCDEnvironment.service(LCDEnvironment.java:297) at com.ibm.domino.xsp.bridge.http.engine.XspCmdManager.service(XspCmdManager.java:272) Caused by: com.ibm.jscript.InterpretException: Script interpreter error, line=7, col=8: Error while converting from a JSON string at com.ibm.jscript.types.FBSGlobalObject$GlobalMethod.call(FBSGlobalObject.java:785) at com.ibm.jscript.types.FBSObject.call(FBSObject.java:161) at com.ibm.jscript.types.FBSGlobalObject$GlobalMethod.call(FBSGlobalObject.java:219) at com.ibm.jscript.ASTTree.ASTCall.interpret(ASTCall.java:175) at com.ibm.jscript.ASTTree.ASTReturn.interpret(ASTReturn.java:49) at com.ibm.jscript.ASTTree.ASTProgram.interpret(ASTProgram.java:119) at com.ibm.jscript.ASTTree.ASTProgram.interpretEx(ASTProgram.java:139) at com.ibm.jscript.JSExpression._interpretExpression(JSExpression.java:435) at com.ibm.jscript.JSExpression.access$1(JSExpression.java:424) at com.ibm.jscript.JSExpression$2.run(JSExpression.java:414) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:284) at com.ibm.jscript.JSExpression.interpretExpression(JSExpression.java:410) at com.ibm.jscript.JSExpression.evaluateValue(JSExpression.java:251) at com.ibm.jscript.JSExpression.evaluateValue(JSExpression.java:234) at com.ibm.xsp.javascript.JavaScriptInterpreter.interpret(JavaScriptInterpreter.java:221) at com.ibm.xsp.javascript.JavaScriptInterpreter.interpret(JavaScriptInterpreter.java:193) at com.ibm.xsp.binding.javascript.JavaScriptValueBinding.getValue(JavaScriptValueBinding.java:78) ... 27 more Caused by: com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.JsonException: Error when parsing JSON string at com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.JsonParser.fromJson(JsonParser.java:61) at com.ibm.jscript.types.FBSGlobalObject$GlobalMethod.call(FBSGlobalObject.java:781) ... 43 more Caused by: com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.parser.ParseException: Encountered " "object "" at line 1, column 2. Was expecting one of: "false" ... "null" ... "true" ... ... ... ... "{" ... "[" ... "]" ... "," ... at com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.parser.Json.generateParseException(Json.java:568) at com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.parser.Json.jj_consume_token(Json.java:503) at com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.parser.Json.arrayLiteral(Json.java:316) at com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.parser.Json.parseJson(Json.java:387) at com.ibm.commons.util.io.json.JsonParser.fromJson(JsonParser.java:59) ... 44 more "
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there any way to get the desired answer?</p>