Re: YAJL and very precise number

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

continuing...

The performance turned out to be something like 10 times faster than YAJL.
After calling the parse() procedure you might code something like:

latitude = %float(jsnGetVal('/Lat_WGS84'));



On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:45 PM Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> Looks like Scott provided a solution. With the JSON parser I wrote, I felt
> that the API would be much simpler if I had only 1 procedure return node
> values as VARCHAR type, and let the RPG programmer use %float(), %dec(),
> %int(), etc. to transform it to the appropriate data type. As a bonus, it
> turned out that it performed something like 1
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 7:14 AM Peter Colpaert <peter.colpaert@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I've been tasked with refactoring some API calls from our system to
> > various
> > websites and am implementing Scott Klement's excellent YAJLR4 service
> > program (thanks Scott!)
> >
> > However, I'm a bit at a loss as to how I can extract coordinates from a
> > JSON file I receive.
> >
> > More specifically, the latitude and longitude are represented as follows:
> >
> >   "Location": {
> >       "Lat_WGS84": 51.17456057389046,
> >       "Lon_WGS84": 4.3991863572532086,
> >       "X_Lambert72": 152128.06,
> >       "Y_Lambert72": 207173.33
> >      }
> >
> > I can successfully find the Lat_WGS84 and Lon_WGS84 nodes, but I cannot
> > retrieve the full coordinates.
> >
> > If I use yajl_get_string, it returns nothing (of course), but
> > yajl_get_number is truncated to 9 decimals whereas I need 14.
> >
> > I could of course treat the JSON response as a string and simply scan for
> > the first occurrence of "Location", but that would defeat the purpose of
> > having YAJL available.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Peter
> >
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> >
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