Re: extract JSON with DATA_INTO blows up when var is blank ((from midrange-l))

You need a count_articles field in the DS since you are not INTOing directly into the articles array.

Any time you have less elements than you said you would have you need a count. The alternative is to use allowmissing which is s really bad idea.

So the start of the DS should be this:

dcl-ds return_array Qualified;
count_articles int(5);
dcl-ds articles dim(999) ;

Just tested it and it works fine - assuming that you had 3 articles in that file!

An alternative would be to just target the articles array directly - then RPG would automatically supply the count in the PSDS.


Jon Paris

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On Nov 5, 2018, at 3:27 PM, Gerald Magnuson <gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... I am so close...
to get Scott's parser (YAJLINTO) to read my json, I needed to add a over
arching ds (I just called it return_array)...

now the only trouble I have is I am getting a "reason code 2 - too few
array elements for array subfields..."
on my top array named "articles"... but that is dim(999), and there are
no more than 5 to 10 elements listed...

I have put the data structure, DATA-INTO statement, and raw JSON in the
following snip:
https://code.midrange.com/75aca1934e.html
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