Re: RPG JSON YAJL

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Man, you and Jon P! :) If those are anything like the XML SQL functions 
- at least for consuming content - I found those very manageable. I 
haven't spent any time with creating XML, though, so can't speak to any 
similarities with the JSON stuff.

I went to SQL for consuming XML, because it was more flexible, and at 
7.1, at least, was more forgiving about weird UTF-8 byte sequences, such 
as emojis. Neither XML-INTO or XML-SAX handled that at 7.1, and we had 
to make stuff work!

For consuming content, I recommend Birgitta's presentations at COMMON, 
or maybe they're available elsewhere.

Regards
Vern

On 1/22/2020 12:15 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> Personally, I tried out the SQL functions when they were first released.  I found them counterintuitive, as well as clunky and difficult to use.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Fathers [mailto:X700-IX2J@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:24 AM
> To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] RPG JSON YAJL
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> ...I'm curious as to why you'd use YAJL instead of embedded SQL to create/consume JSON in RPG, which seems to me to be a better option?
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> Tim.