RE: JSON, DATA-GEN, YAJL, and Special Character Field Names

Ah. Interesting. I think I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 11:17 AM
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Subject: Re: JSON, DATA-GEN, YAJL, and Special Character Field Names

I've just written this up for IT Jungle but it has not been published yet.

Hopefully this will show you what you need to do. In this example the json names included embedded spaces. The name_ variables supply the name to be used for the content of the associated field.

...
Dcl-DS customer_Data Dim(20);

name_customer_Id varchar(30) inz('Customer Id');

customer_Id zoned(5);

name_customer_Name varchar(30) inz('Customer Name');

customer_Name varchar(40);


You then specify renameprefix=name_ to the DATA-GEN options.


Hopefully this will point you in the right direction.


Jon Paris

On Jun 24, 2021, at 10:42 AM, Stephen Piland <Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have used DATA-INTO and YAJL a good bit and have been able to consume / decode JSON messages that contain field / element names with disallowed characters. For example.. e-Commerce and YAJLINTO converts it to e_Commerce. There isn't a way to do this in reverse, is there? I'm thinking no since YAJLGEN would not know the special character we'd need to put into the JSON message.

I'm thinking we'll have to use SQL or build the string manually.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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