# How to return an object in json to be a hash and not a string hash
**URL:** https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/how-to-return-an-object-in-json-to-be-a-hash-and-not-a-string-hash/512
**Category:** dry-types
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/how-to-return-an-object-in-json-to-be-a-hash-and-not-a-string-hash/512 "2018-03-15T06:56:00Z")
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### Author:  [@cyb-ahmadh](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/u/cyb-ahmadh)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/how-to-return-an-object-in-json-to-be-a-hash-and-not-a-string-hash/512/1 "2018-03-15T06:56:01Z")
Below is the api response:
```
{
"total": 59198,
"products": [
{
"id": "23423",
"name": {
"German": "s.Oliver BLACK LABE - Damen, Weiß, Größe 44"
},
"brand": "s.Oliver BLACK LABEL",
"image_url": "https://some_url.com",
"category": "Shirts & Tops"
},...
]
}
```
and i’m using `dry-struct` to convert the `response` to ruby objects. For that below is the class:
```
class SomeService < Dry::Struct
include Dry::Types.module
attribute 'id', String
attribute 'brand', String
attribute 'image_url', String
attribute 'category', String
attribute 'name', Strict::hash
end
```
Notice the `attribute name`. The name attribute in the response is `json` and for that i’m using `Strict::Hash` to convert the json in ruby hash. I’m not sure about it.
Still the response is like this:
```
{
"brand": "s.Oliver BLACK LABEL",
"name": "{\"German\"=>\"s.Oliver BLACK LABEL - Damen, Weiß, Größe 44\"}"
}
```
Let me know what am i doing wrong ?
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### Author:  [@cyb-ahmadh](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/u/cyb-ahmadh)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/how-to-return-an-object-in-json-to-be-a-hash-and-not-a-string-hash/512/2 "2018-03-15T14:14:22Z")
I’ve resolved this issue. The problem was not with the dry-struct but the graphql types.
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### Author:  [@solnic](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/u/solnic)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/how-to-return-an-object-in-json-to-be-a-hash-and-not-a-string-hash/512/3 "2018-03-16T10:20:00Z")
I recommend using your own `Types` module where you include built-in types, instead of including them in the struct classes, they have same names as some core classes like `String`, `Hash` etc. and you really want to have name namespaced.
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### Author:  [@cyb-ahmadh](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/u/cyb-ahmadh)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/how-to-return-an-object-in-json-to-be-a-hash-and-not-a-string-hash/512/4 "2018-03-16T11:43:49Z")
Yes absolutely. Thanks much