Re: JSON - YAJL parse error

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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