Re: RPG, retrieving JSON data from a web service

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I forgot a common error when you copy/paste from javascript and think it is
JSON

aaa = { "name" : "Henrik", address : "Byporten", "city" : "Copenhagen" }

This code will be accepted in javascript but it is NOT JSON but a mix.

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Javascript can be very forgiving when it comes to JSON and besides that
> what people believe is JSON
> often are javascript objects. The main difference is
>
> Javascript: { name : "Henrik" }
> JSON: { "name" : "Henrik" }
>
> Both javascript and JSON data must be encoded with \ before special
> characters in the data-strings and
> that is probably what is missing som Henrik"s must be Henrik\"s.
>
> These enconding may be hidden in editors that is prefix sensitive
> (reconize JSON) but is not hidden in a EDTF
> that treats all IFS files as plain .txt
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 5:12 AM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "lexical error: invalid char in json text " is the error message in debug
> > with yajl_buf_load_tree().
> >
> > The json file is a a file I use successfully in javascript web pages. I
> > uploaded the file to the IFS without trouble.  In fact I did it once with
> > FileZilla and once with RDi.  Both attempts gave this same error message.
> > I then edited the file in the IFS with WRKLNK option 2
> >
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