Jon Paris and Susan Gantner

In this tip I’m going to discuss some of the options used with DATA-GEN and DATA-INTO to deal with the fact that element names in JSON and XML frequently contain characters that are not legal in RPG names. This is important because RPG’s -INTO and…

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the use of DATA-GEN and DATA-INTO to create “blog entries” via a web service. This time I am going to focus on using the GET HTTP method to retrieve blog entries. As you will see the basic process is very…

Many of the “Can you help me with. . . ” communications that cross my desk these days include reference to JSON. Sometimes the questioner is receiving JSON in a file, or has to retrieve it from a web service, or needs to generate JSON in response to…

YAJLINTO Options for Special Data Types JSON supports a boolean data type (i.e. an indicator in RPG terms) - the values for such elements being 'true' and 'false'. By default, YAJLINTO maps these to to '1' (true) and '0' (false). These defaults work…

Generating and Consuming JSON with RPG Of course, one could always do it the hard way, i.e. stringing together requests and parsing responses "by hand". However, RPG gives us three main alternatives to this: Embed SQL and use its JSON…