Scripted Rest API — any way to get rid of the "result" wrapper?

[Joey Day]

When writing my own Scripted REST API, in the Scripted API Resource record, I'm specifying the object I'd like serialized and returned to the requestor. I've tried writing the Scripted API Resource script two different ways, like this:

(function process(/*RESTAPIRequest*/ request, /*RESTAPIResponse*/ response) {
         // implement resource here
         return {
                   "text": "Hello world!"
         };
})(request, response);

And alternatively like this:

(function process(/*RESTAPIRequest*/ request, /*RESTAPIResponse*/ response) {
         // implement resource here
         response.setBody({
                   "text": "Hello world!"
         });
})(request, response);

But, either way, ServiceNow wraps that returned object in another object containing a single key/value pair named "result" and the value being the object I returned. So, the serialized JSON ServiceNow actually sends back looks like this:

{"result":{"text":"Hello world!"}}

Is there any way to get rid of this "result" wrapper? I didn't write the system that'll receive this response and I need the returned JSON to be formatted to their strict specification or my integration won't work.

[dave_slusher]

And I should have mentioned in my original response you have to do this in any situation where you need your results to conform to a given format. My favorite Scripted REST API use case is conforming an instance to an existing API, like when I put a subset of Twitter API over Live Feed. Nothing in the world expects "result" as the root node of a response, so you always have to do this in those cases.

[Joey Day]

Yep, I'm building mine here to conform to the Slack API. 🙂

[pawan k singh]

Use below script 

//Send Response
var jsonObj = {"Name": "Pawan", "Age" : 28, "Address" :"abc"}, // Get your JSON data in variable jsonObj 
    response.setContentType('application/json');
    response.setStatus(200);
    var writer = response.getStreamWriter();
    writer.writeString(JSON.stringify(jsonObj)); // Stringify before sending JSON

// Output will be 
 {"Name": "Pawan", "Age" : 28, "Address" :"abc"}

Please mark this answer helpful, if it helped you.

Regards

Pawan K Singh