Re: JSON - YAJL parse error

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's because the Apache server (which I assume you're running in front of
our RPG web service) will not convert the data from ASCII to EBCDIC if the
content type  is application/json.

Have you tried using:
yajl_stdin_load_tree(): Load JSON data from stdin (Apache)
                        into a tree structure.

  is_utf8 (input) = *ON=data is already UTF-8.
                   *OFF=data is in EBCDIC
  errMsg (output) = error message (if any)

To load the data?  I believe the default is to treat the data as utf8.

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Keith McCully <keithmccully@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I am attempting to parse a JSON formatted string from within a RPG
> REST web service server program. The parsing is done via Scott
> Klement's YAJL wrapper.
>
> The web service is called from an IBM i node.js client as a HTTP 'put'
> method. Since I'm passing a JSON string in the request body I have to
> set the 'Content-Type' header. However if I set the Content-Type to
> 'application/json' I get this YAJL error: “lexical error: invalid char
> in json text”.
>
> Here's a sample of the JSON - externally validated as valid JSON.
>
> {"pm_option":"ZZZ","pm_branch":"999","pm_accno":"
> AAA1234567ZZZ","pm_snma1":"PPP","pm_trnamt":"10.78","pm_
> cash":"N","pm_payee":"A.N.Other","pm_wthacc":"","pm_
> wthscdc":"","pm_wthrefc":"","pm_taccn":"","pm_tsnma1":"","pm_demand":"N"}
>
> If I now set the Content-Type to 'text/xml' YAJL doesn't complain and
> parse works fine.
>
> I get the same results if I run the web service call from SoapUI so
> the error is not caused by the node client.
>
> Any suggestions as to the cause?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
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