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Nesting macros in user macros - how to stop render of JSON output by nested macro before user macro?

Nesting macros in user macros - how to stop render of JSON output by nested macro before user macro?

I am using SQL Query to get a JSON string from Postgres which is then fed via a user macro to JavaScript to initialize Chart.js plugin for better charts

Seems like I can only place another macro inside my user macro if I select "Rendered" body. However, this causes Confluence to render the resulting JSON as Confluence markup, which breaks everything completely and horribly. How can I allow a macro as the body of my user macro but stop it from processing that data before handoff to my user macro? Is there an intermediary macro I can use to stop that processing? Is there a way to escape curly brackets without whatever escape character following through to the user macro? the user macro needs valid JSON as input.

Right now everything works if i change my user macro to "unrendered" and paste my JSON manually, but the JSON is dynamic hence the SQL query.

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I didn't find a way around it, I ended up using javascript to remove the crap.

1) Load underscore.js in Custom HTML <head> or in place

2) Set the SQL Query output to "escape special wiki characters"

3) Use the following javascript on document load:

<script type="text/javascript">
 var json =`$body`;

 json = json.replace(/<\/?span[^>]*>/g,"");
 json = json.replace(/(<|)br\s*\/*(>|)/g,' ');
 json = _.unescape(json);
 json = JSON.parse(json);

 //var json should now be valid JSON, hopefully

</script>

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Hi Austin,

Thank you for your post, I have tried nesting with chart macro and successful. But the charts are very basic and I dont have much control.

I was going through the chart.js documentation but could not figure out how to nest Chart.js inside a user macro,

Can you please share that part where you nested chart.js in your user macro?

Thank you

with warm regards

ramki

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