winglang/wing

can't set a dynamic json key

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#5,917 opened on Mar 12, 2024

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Description

I tried this:

let url = "http://example.com";

let x= Json{
  "{url}": "valid"
};

log("{Json.stringify(x)}");

This happened:

{"{url}":"valid"}

the key isn't set correctly to the value of url

I expected this:

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Is there a workaround?

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Anything else?

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Examine the JSON literal parsing in the Wing compiler to see how string interpolation is handled for keys.
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2
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Wing
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