Re: Escaping strings for JSON (That project involving web services again)

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Manually? Editor? RPGLE?

Anyway... would find/replace or %scan/%replace work?



On 10/29/2018 12:25 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> I've just found a large bottleneck in that project I keep talking 
> about in vague terms, that involves feeding data from a file to a web 
> service.
>
> It seems that I've got a rather large varlen string field (max length 
> just under 16k) that can contain multiple paragraphs, and unlimited 
> punctuation. And it seems that most of my time is spent escaping that 
> string: over three minutes for a 1000-record test, with individual 
> record escape times ranging from 5 milliseconds to 1.6 seconds.
>
> There's got to be a faster way to escape long strings for JSON 
> transmission than what I'm doing (within RPG).
>
> Any suggestions? (Other than "Retire to the back-country and live in a 
> wigwam"?)
>
> --
> JHHL