I have a stored proc that returns json. The proc works fine and when I call it in SSMS it returns a json object that I can click and see as valid json. When I call it through Visual Studio it does the same, and clicking into it and pressing return formats it nicely so it's readable (and not all on a single line). If I take the string and pass it back into the sql function IsJson, it also returns true, so I'm 100% confident that the json coming out of the proc is valid.
However, my frontend developer is unable to parse it, and it seems to boil down to something trying to convert it somewhere.
The json (as output from the proc) is:
{"APIResult":[{"ID":200,"Status_Message":"Success","Developer_Message":"Successful login for D56D10AC-3A74-42FC-8BB5-F783A6C0C556 33E4F907-F1E5-4F1B-8CA5-5521291E683A (AppID: (null)).","User_Message":"Successful login","User":[{"ID":"D56D10AC-3A74-42FC-8BB5-F783A6C0C556"}]}]}
Using Postman to hit the live API (or localhost) I get back the data I expect (as above) however, it wraps the entire thing in double quotes and escapes all the double quotes around each element, so I get:
"{\"APIResult\":[{\"ID\":200,\"Status_Message\":\"Success\",\"Developer_Message\":\"Successful login for D56D10AC-3A74-42FC-8BB5-F783A6C0C556 33E4F907-F1E5-4F1B-8CA5-5521291E683A (AppID: (null)).\",\"User_Message\":\"Successful login\",\"User\":[{\"ID\":\"D56D10AC-3A74-42FC-8BB5-F783A6C0C556\"}]}]}"
When I try to parse this in sql (using isjson) it returns false. However, parsing this same code though jsonlint.com interprets it as valid. Trying it through the parser my developer is using http://json.parser.online.fr throws it out as errors too.
At a push, I can tell my developer to strip the first and last characters and replace every \" with " but this seems a bit faffy.
Are there different interpretations of json? I've read that this is often caused by the calling app expecting a string that it needs to json-ify and because it's getting a json object it's json-ifying the json, but even if I force sql server to output the string as a string and not json, it still seems the same. SQL is definitely pushing it out correctly but whatever my developer is calling the api through returns the same format as postman, and doesn't like it. How can I ensure that what the calling code gets is what SQL is giving and not some weird interpretation?
#Tim Try to deserialize the output of stored procedure. Use JSonConvert.Derialize in C#
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I have a JSON file in Azure Blob storage that I need to parse and insert rows into SQL using the Logic App.
I am using the "Get Blob Content" and my first attempt was to then pass to "Parse JSON". It returns and error": InvalidTemplate. Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Parse_JSON' inputs at line '1' and column '2856'"
I found some discussion that indicated that the content needs to be converted to a string so I used "Compose" and edited the code as suggested to
"inputs": "#base64ToString(body('Get_blob_content').$content)"
This works but then the InvalidTemplate issue gets pushed to the Parse function and I get the InvalidTemplate error there. I have tried wrapping the output in JSON expression and a few other things but I just can't get it to parse.
If I take a sample or even the entire JSON and put it into the INPUT of the Parse function it works without issue but it will not accept the blob content as JSON.
The only thing I have been able to do successfully from blob content is to take it as a string and update a row in SQL to later use the OPENJSON in SQL...but I run into an issue there that is for another post.
I am at a loss of what to do.
You don't post much information about your logic app actions, so maybe you could refer to my flow design. I test with a json data with array.
The below is my flow picture. I'm not using compose action, and use decodeBase64(body('Get_blob_content')['$content']) as the Parse Json content.
And if select property from the json, you need set the array index. I set a variable to get a value 'body('Parse_JSON')1['name']'.
you could have a try with this, if still fail, please provide more information or some sample to let us have a test.
I'm using jsoncpp to store information in JSON format. I now have the need to store a json string inside of another json string... In other words, I need to store a sub_item inside of an item.
Using jsoncpp to generate the JSON string, I get this...
{"id":"1","name":"Advil","sub_item":"{\"id\":\"2\",\"name\":\"Liquid Gel Advil\"}\n"}
Which works perfectly fine during runtime. However, when my program saves this information into a MySQL database (on exit) and then loads it back up when I restart the program, it loads the same JSON string from the MySQL database, but it now looks like this...
{"id":"1","name":"Advil","sub_item":"{"id":"2","name":"Liquid Gel Advil"}"}
Which is an invalid JSON string. I'm not sure why this is happening can someone please tell me what the heck is going on...
My MySQL query string reads like so:
UPDATE json_string_test SET jsonstring='{"id":"1","name":"Advil","sub_item":"{\"id\":\"2\",\"name\":\"Liquid Gel Advil\"}\n"}';
Upon further research I found out FastWriter was depreciated, and StreamWriterBuilder was the recommended writer. However, it still produced the same problem as FastWrtier....
I managed to rig a fix by doing the following...
1) Before saving to the database, I replaced ALL substrings matching \" to \\" in ONLY the child JSON string (with id 2).
2) Upon loading the JSON string, I replaced ALL substrings matching \\" to \" in ONLY the child JSON string (with id 2).
I don't understand why the heck I have to do this, so if anyone has a better solution or an explanation... I'd love to hear it.
I think you need to transpose your last 2 characters (assuming your posted string is verbatim). You have
Advil\"}\n"}
but I think you need
Advil\"}\n}"
I've come up with a doubt around JSON files.
So, we're building a test case for a GWT application. The data it feeds from is in JSON files generated from a SQL database.
When testing the methods that work with data, we do it from sources held in String files, so to keep integrity with the original data, we just clone the original JSON values in to a String with escape sequences.
The result of this being that if a JSON entry shows like this:
{"country":"India","study_no":87}
The parsed result will come up like this in order for our tools to recognise them:
"[" + "{\"country\":\"India\",\"study_no\":87}" + "]"
The way we do it now is taking each JSON object and putting it between "" in IntelliJ, which automatically parses all double quotes in to escape sequences. This is ok if we only wanted a few objects, but What if we wanted a whole dataset?
So my question is, does anyone know or has created an opensource script to automate this tedious task?
One thing you could do is to wrap window.escape() using JsInterop or JSNI. For example:
#JsType(isNative="true", name="window")
public class window {
public native String escape(String toBeEscape);
}
and then apply to your results.
How can make sure that the result of my getURL() call is properly formatted to be parsed using from JSON?
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If I take the string for api URL and paste that into Chrome, then copy and paste out the resulting JSON, RJSONIO::fromJSON() will parse it. However, if I pass the variable test, as in my code below, to fromJSON(), I get this error:
Error in fromJSON(content, handler, default.size, depth, allowComments, :
invalid JSON input
In going through the differences between the two, I found some issues encoding escaped character sequences such as "\\\"\\\\\\\"" which I am able to search for and replace. However there are some other things, where for example, the broken JSON will show " " while the working JSON will show "\u00A0".
library(RJSONIO)
library(RCurl)
apiURL= #sorry I can't post the actual URL due to company security policies
test<-getURL(apiURL,userpwd="myusername:mypassword",httpauth=1L)
transcripts1 <- fromJSON(test)
I am getting text from MySQL via a laravel model and converting the content to JSON. Unfortunately the text contains new lines and carriage returns, is there any way to get the contents properly escaped?
Article::find(1)->toJSON();
Gives me an Ajax/JSON error in my view so I was wondering where the problem is. Am I either storing the content the wrong way or am I retrieving it the wrong way?
Thanks.
This is the JSON string I am getting for a test article:
{"id":22,"short_title":"Another test article","long_title":"Longer title for the test article mention in the short title","description":"This article describes a computer classroom where strange things happen and stuf","content":"This is a test article and I think this will generate the error I am looking for. <\/p>\r\n\r\n Maybe or maybe not. <\/p>\r\n","deleted_at":null,"created_at":"2014-04-25 09:10:45","updated_at":"2014-04-25 09:10:45","category_id":1,"zenra_link":"","published_on":null,"published":1,"source_url":"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/morisitakurumi\/archives\/51856280.html","source_title":"Some source article","source_date":null,"slug":"another-test-article","view_count":0}
The content portion is generated by a textarea that's running CKEditor and it gets saved to a MySQL MEDIUMTEXT field.
Next thing I do is that I inject this into my view to populate my backbone views like this:
<script>var initialData = JSON.parse('{{ $cJson }}');</script>
And that's where the console tells me: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected Token. As suggested I tested the above string on jsonlint.com and it comes back as valid.
I figured out the problem:
<script>var initialData = JSON.parse('{{ $cJson }}');</script>
This is where the error happens. JSON.parse freaks out on the string I supply. If I remove JSON.parse it works like this:
<script>var initialData = {{ $cJson }};</script>
No more unexpected token errors. I was on the wrong track with the problem because I read on so many places that the carriage returns and new lines produce errors in the JSON format.