Escape characters are appearing after extracting JSON data by using ExtractVariables policy

Google Cloud Apigee
1

Extract Variable policy is being used for extracting part of the backend response.

Partial ExtractVariables policy:

<JSONPayload> 
	<Variable name="data">
  		<JSONPath>$.data</JSONPath>
 	</Variable> 
</JSONPayload>

After extraction, Part of the extracted response has escape characters:

"nextDataSet":"https:\/\/www.apigee.com\/application\/lob\/v1\/notification\/resource?lastRecord=N-xxx"

How these escape characters can be avoided / removed from response?

2

A simple JavaScript can be applied to remove these addiitonal escape characters:

var data=JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(context.getVariable("data")));

context.setVariable("response.content",data);