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Re: Parsing JSON data into a data structure without knowing variable's names

Sure, there is something I am missing.

I make use of API often, so in my case at a certain point there might be an
RPG variable rfNAME evaluated through API (or at least other two * methods
I can think of) whose content is "NAME" and the JSON current node name is
"NAME" whose paired value is "Maria Lucia"; then comparing rfNAME and JSON
nodename I finally know I have found the right JSON node for a variable
belonging to my data structure: how would you write an RPG specification
which assign "Maria Lucia" to RPG variable NAME?

2017-08-14 10:35 GMT+02:00 Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Here is what you need and it will give you alle the info you need:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_i5_54/apis/quslfld.htm

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

If the variable that contains the name is untied to its pointer how can
it
be used to load data in the right memory position?
Il 14/Ago/2017 09:32, "Henrik Rützou" <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Maria,

if you define the datasctructure externally there are API's that can
read
the field names in the DS
within your program and then you can use JSON-"find".

There may however be a problem since JSON names are case sensitive and
DS
names probably
are in upper case.


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Maria Lucia Stoppa <
mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi everybody

Thank you all for this interesting thread. Just let me sum up all I
read
in
it.

I would leave Javascript outside this discussion, because I have to
do
this
job in pure RPG ILE without the help of WDSC or other develop
environment.
Anyway, JSON format being pretty much similar to Javascript object
description is done on purpose as it makes data immediately available
in
a
Javascript object just after being read.

I think all of you got the point of my request, which is to
programmatic
read JSON data to be loaded into a data structure; anyway, from all
your
answers it seems impossible to match a JSON pair name/value with a DS
variable/value and that leads to build a couple of programs: a
generator
code which knowing the data structure to be loaded can write
appropriate
specifications which in turn know what to read.

Because the obstacle here is how to make a JSON node identifying
itself
in
a given data structure, as Jon clearly pointed out.

In my case, types and lengths of variables against those of JSON
values
are
not an issue, because they must match otherwise an error should
arise.

Let me try to reverse the approach: my routine starts looping through
the
data structure definition, let's say by reading DS D specifications
or
whatever is needed as this is a different topic, then the generic
routine
can look for a specific information into the JSON. But how? Given my
ignorance, I guess variables' names are converted into pointers at
compile
time, but is there a way to reverse the process so that to obtain a
variable which contains the name of a variable given a pointer?


2017-08-14 3:55 GMT+02:00 Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

You missed my point Brad - which was that YAJL_OBJECT_LOOP will
loop
through anything. The rest of it was just showing how the generic
object
can be compared to find its identity.

But I agree in as much as one always needs to know something in a
business
processing environment. Unless you are simply writing a utility to
report
(for example) on what it finds.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Aug 13, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Jon Paris <
jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:
Not necessary to know the structure Nathan as you can query what
kind
of node you are dealing with.

A straight object loop can also be used - for example:

Dow YAJL_OBJECT_LOOP( customerNode: i: key: node );
Select;
When key = 'ID';
customer(c).id = YAJL_GET_NUMBER( node );
When key = 'Name';
customer(c).name = YAJL_GET_STRING( node );

In this instance I only need certain fields and the names are
known
-
but the YAJL_OBJECT_LOOP itself dd not require that I know the
names
or
types of the objects.


How is knowing the names, data types and container not knowing
the
structure?

You know you're in a customer array that contains at least a
numeric
ID and character name. I'd say that's at least knowing the
structure
at least partially, if not wholly.

As I said earlier I think code gen is the way to go - but the
JSON
structure can be dynamically determined just as XML-SAX allows you
to
do
with XML.


Yes, that makes sense, but once you do the program "knows" the
structure and is built appropriately around thus said structure.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
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