Re: JSON Formatting opinion

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

I personally think it's wrong to return an empty array.  What do the docs
say about it for this specific case?

What I find these days working with outside groups is they are getting way
too dependent on letting the plugin code do all the work for them.


Bradley V. Stone
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:58 PM Don Brown via WEB400 <
web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Group,
>
> We are working with a third party to process transactions and receive the
> data in JSON.
>
> Recently we received an error using DATA-INTO.  Strange thing was it
> worked on one system but not on another so we have scheduled to get the
> two systems on the same PTF levels.
>
> Anyway the JSON data looks like this;
>
> If account details are provided we get something like this ...
>
> "account": {
>               "id": 36682,
>               "name": "HEALTH",
>               "ref": "45010",
>               "active": "1",
>               "type": "INVOICE",
>               "pin": "",
>               "prepaid": 0
>           },
>
> If no account details are present we get ...
>
> "account": [],
>
>
> We would have expected it to look like:
>
> "account": {},
>
> The third part replied with the following;
>
> We have some stuff like this, things return an object, but if there its no
> object its an empty array. When using this in PHP its fine but other
> languages it will cause problems. We can queue it up for a fix. Maybe set
> it as account: null instead of account: {}
>
> Just wondering on an opinion if you think the null account being provided
> as an array is valid or not or how you would address this.
>
> We are using YAJLINTO as the parser.
>
> Don Brown
>
>
>
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