LI81452: GATEWAYSCRIPT CODE WITH AN ESCAPED BACKSLASH IN SOURCE WILL HAVE THE CODE CHANGED TO ELIMINATE ONE OF THOSE BACKSLASHES

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The conversion of the JSON API swagger metadata to XML is not
  serializing the JSON string properly when the string has an
  escaped backslash.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">The conversion
  of the JSON API swagger metadata to XML was not </span><span
  style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">serializing the JSON
  string source property for these policies properly when the
  supplied code had an escaped backslash.  This resulted in a loss
  of the escape character.  As the fix will be a behavioral change
  in the product for customers that may have coded around this
  issue, the new behavior is enabled using an API property
  </span>x-ibm-gateway-framework-preserve-escaped-reverse-solidus
  which must have a value of true.
  

Problem conclusion

• <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(34,
  34, 34);font-family:lato,helvetica
  neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">The fix is targeted for
  inclusion in IBM API Connect fixpack </span><span
  style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">version 5.0.8.8 and
  version 2018.4.1.12.</span>
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  API CONNECT ENT

• Fixed component ID

  5725Z2201

Applicable component levels

• R508 PSY

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