Re: Dealing with Trading Partners With Invalid JSON

After telling them they are wrong ... politely

I would increase the price for the work you are doing - hopefully it is
billable ?

You have not said but is this a one way transaction - from you to the
trading partner ?

If yes, then as you have indicated it is like talking to a brick wall I
would use RPG to build the string manually, with some clear comments
indicating why and no swearwords!!.

Cheers

Don




From: "Brad Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 29/03/2024 01:08 AM
Subject: Dealing with Trading Partners With Invalid JSON
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Hello, all!

How would you all deal with a trading partner that gives you specs on JSON
for a web service where the JSON itself is invalid and the project
manager just wants to work around it (bandaid style)?

YAJL won't let me create the invalid JSON... the trading partner doesn't
seem to care their JSON is invalid (I'd love to know what they're using to
parse it... but because their docs are much more detailed on XML I would
assume maybe they convert it from JSON to XML and then parse it).

It's very frustrating to say the least. Example:

items {
item {....},
item {....}
}

Obviously the items object should be an array... YAJL won't let me create
multiple item objects in (and it shouldn't..), the JSON fails the JSON
validators... etc.. etc..

When we ask for clarification they send another sample that has the same
issues.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
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