TypeError: can't convert Net::HTTPOK into String

ruby json net-http google-geocoding-api
Chris picture Chris · Feb 19, 2012 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I'm using net/http and json to geocode an address using google's Geocoding API. Here is where the error is being thrown:

response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
result = JSON.parse(response)

The response is of class Net::HTTPOK, but I want to access the actual JSON response data (not just the status code).

Answer

Marc Talbot picture Marc Talbot · Feb 20, 2012

You want

result = JSON.parse(response.body)

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTPResponse.html

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