Re: Help receiving JSON into CGI program

Alvin,

200%20MAIN%20ST isn't JSON. There is no need to encode blanks in JSON, it'd simply be { "street": "200 MAIN ST" } but if you had to encode something, it'd look like this: { "street": "200\u0020MAIN\u0020ST" }

What you have is HTTP URL Encoded data. To decode it, you can call the SQL URLDECODE function https://tinyurl.com/47wexvzz


On 4/12/2022 8:12 AM, Alvin Strasburger 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.