I'm using views datasource to create JSON output of some nodes. They are of a custom content type that has two fields; title (text) and pg_topics (paragraph). Within the paragraph bundle are two text fields, subtitle and details.

The problems is that the pg_topics field is coming out as flat text, rather than a JSON array structure.

"node" : {
"title" : "Bathing and Grooming",
"field_pg_topics" : "\n \n Subtitle: How often should I bathe my puppy and what kind of shampoo is best?Details: Unless your puppy gets himself muddy or smelly for some reason..."}

I tried twiddling with the JSON settings, and created a custom display for the paragraph bundle, but can't get the output the way I want. Is it possible to create the paragraph output as a nested array?

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codesmith
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Did you have any luck with this or find a workaround?

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mheinke CreditAttribution: mheinke commented

i need a Paragraphs json formatter in my life. output like this shouldnt exist:
"field_layer_set": "\n \n 0\n \n background\n \n 0\n \n 0\n \n, \n \n 1\n \n Middle Layer\n \n 30\n \n 30\n \n"

i might work on one in my spare time.

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bneil CreditAttribution: bneil at The University of Iowa commented

We have used Restful module very successfully to do nested JSON output, including Paragraph items. We have been moving away from views_datasource since it does not handle nested well for many/all resources.

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arruk CreditAttribution: arruk commented

This is three years old. Is there any movement on it?