Re: RPG, retrieving JSON data from a web service

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

I've seen that when the CCSID of the JSON file is incorrect.

Test the JSON first for validity.  I use this but a google search will
bring up a few:
https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

Also, when asking for help, you may want to include code and the json
itself.


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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:12 PM, 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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