Problems with YAJL and/or SoapUI

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Posted this on HTTPAPI list but no takers so far.  Hoping someone here can offer a suggestion or three.


> I have been testing a JSON based web service with SoapUI and all was going well.
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> _But_ in order to make my code work initially I had had to use:
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> root = yajl_stdin_load_tree ( *Off: errMsg ); 
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> In other words I had to tell YAJL that my data was in EBCDIC.  This didn't make sense to me because I thought I was sending UTF8 but I needed it working and thought that resolution could wait for another day. Got the whole service working beautifully. 
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> But two things happened 
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> 1) "another day" has arrived and
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> 2) A problem with SoapUI has meant my request configuration was not saved. Tried to set it up again and now I cannot get a single *%^$ thing working.
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> If I tell SoapUI that the data is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" - which I am pretty certain is what it was set as - then I get a message back from YAJL saying "unsupported content-type [application/json; charset=utf-8]" 
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> OK - data _is_ UTF8 so I changed the *Off in the load tree to *On. But now YAJL simply blows up during the tree load.
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> I have tried every combination of content setting and *On/*Off combination I can think of and nothing is working. Even if I get past the load tree blowing up then YAJL blows up subsequently when trying to locate the first node.
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> Although I did play with the Apache config (trying to fix the UTF8/EBCDIC issue) I'm certain it is now back where it was and, other than the noted *On/*Off changes mentioned above, the program has not been changed from the working version.
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> Apache config is straightforward as set by the wizard with changes only to the ScriptAlias - it looks like this:
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>   1	   # Configuration originally created by Create HTTP Server wizard on Mon Jan 23 16:49:35 EST 2012
>   2	   Listen *:1241
>   3	   DocumentRoot /www/jonrest/htdocs
>   4	   TraceEnable Off
>   5	   Options +ExecCGI -FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch -Includes -Indexes -MultiViews
>   6	   LogFormat "%h %T %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
>   7	   LogFormat "%{Cookie}n \"%r\" %t" cookie
>   8	   LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
>   9	   LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
>   10	   LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
>   11	   CustomLog logs/access_log combined
>   12	   LogMaint logs/access_log 7 0
>   13	   LogMaint logs/error_log 7 0
>   14	   SetEnvIf "User-Agent" "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
>   15	   SetEnvIf "User-Agent" "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
>   16	   SetEnvIf "User-Agent" "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
>   17	   SetEnvIf "User-Agent" "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
>   18	   SetEnvIf "User-Agent" "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive
>   19	   SetEnvIf "User-Agent" "MSIE 4\.0b2;" force-response-1.0
>   20	   MaxCGIJobs 3
>   21	   MaxThreadedCGIJobs 3
>   22	   
>   23	   ScriptAlias /SinglePartRequest /qsys.lib/xxxxxx.lib/Singlepart.pgm
>   24	   <Directory /qsys.lib/xxxxxx.lib >
>   25	       Order Allow,Deny
>   26	       Allow From All
>   27	       SetEnv QIBM_CGI_LIBRARY_LIST "YAJL"
>   28	   </Directory>
>   29	   
>   30	   <Directory />
>   31	        Order Deny,Allow
>   32	        Deny From all
>   33	   </Directory>
>   34	   <Directory /www/jonrest/htdocs>
>   35	        Order Allow,Deny
>   36	        Allow From all
>   37	   </Directory>
>   38	   
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> Hopefully someone with more experience in this area can point me in the right direction because right now I'm clueless.
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> Jon Paris
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