Re: Help receiving JSON into CGI program

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

The data should be decoded when read in using YAJL.

Here a link to a series I did a while back:

https://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=197

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 3:56 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.
>
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> 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?
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Alvin
>
> Alvin Strasburger
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