Re: Help receiving JSON into CGI program

Are you using the native APIs? CGIDEV2? What does you Apache configuration look like? etc. etc. That's what I was alluding to.

Your data appears to be URL encoded - so was the JSON payload in the URL rather than the body?

Have you looked at the examples Scott provides in his presentation on using RPG to provide web services ? https://www.scottklement.com/presentations/Providing%20RPG%20Web%20Services%20on%20IBM%20i.pdf <https://www.scottklement.com/presentations/Providing%20RPG%20Web%20Services%20on%20IBM%20i.pdf>


Jon P.

On Apr 12, 2022, at 9:12 AM, Alvin Strasburger <alvins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon,
How to receive the JSON is our exact problem. We can parse a JSON-like
string perfectly with DATA-INTO using a test string in our program. Our
issue is the front end of how to receive the 'decoded' JSON doc. Our past
experience is receiving comma delimited strings with no other punctuation or
blanks. Now with trying to receive names and addresses, we end up getting an
address element like 200%20MAIN%20ST instead of 200 MAIN ST. So in short, we
don't really understand how to get the decoded JSON doc to the RPG/YAJL
parser from the CGI interface.

Alvin
Alvin Strasburger
Printgear Sportswear
Phone 803-744-2310
Toll Free 800-763-7763
mailto:alvins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.printgear.com


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It would be good if you told us what you _have_ already tried code wise.
How are you receiving the JSON?


Jon P.

On Apr 11, 2022, at 4:56 PM, Alvin Strasburger <alvins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

We have been providing some web services by receiving simple not
encoded comma delimited lists in CGI programs and responding with
Scott Klement's version of YAJL. This has been working well for us for

several years.

Now we need to do a few more complicated things including receiving
names and addresses with spaces and punctuation. We found in testing
that these fields come to our RPG program encoded. We thought that if
the data was sent as a JSON payload that we could then process it.
However, we don't really understand how to get the decoded JSON
payload from the web to our RPG program We have done significant
research, but are not really web programmers. Can someone offer us a
solution or maybe share a configuration and/or a program where a JSON
payload is successfully passed to RPG from CGI?



Thanks,

Alvin

Alvin Strasburger

Printgear Sportswear

Phone 803-744-2310

Toll Free 800-763-7763

<mailto:alvins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mailto:alvins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

<http://www.printgear.com/> www.printgear.com





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