I'm using Postman and sending various requests that get responses in XML or JSON. I want to understand how JSON works with the APIs. I know that JSON is a called response and I know how to write a JSON file and read it and understand it, although I've never actually used it.
So, my question is how does JSON show up on the website?
I imagine someone has to code it there, similar to HTML.
When I google, I just basically get how-to instructions on various tools from a procedural standpoint and nothing relevant to my question.
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I'm trying to use a full page redirect with a direct integration and if I'm reading the documentation correctly I believe I should be able to generate the server side JSON to pass into RealexHpp.redirect. I know the code to generate this JSON is shared in a number of languages, but is the raw JSON output shared anywhere? I ask as the language I'm writing in isn't one of the ones covered, so I'm trying to make sure I get the output format correct.
I've tried re-creating the JSON structure based on what I believe the Java code displayed should output, but I'm obviously doing something wrong as its not working, would be really useful if I had some raw JSON to compare it against to make sure I'm getting the structure right.
Many thanks,
Raw JSON examples are not available, but we do have HTML POST examples (https://developer.globalpay.com/hpp/card-payments). You can build a JSON based on these.
This is how the JSON should look like: {"MERCHANT_ID":"MerchantId","ACCOUNT":"internet","ORDER_ID":"N6qsk4kYRZihmPrTXWYS6g","AMOUNT":"1999","CURRENCY":"EUR","TIMESTAMP":"20221121100715","AUTO_SETTLE_FLAG":"1","SHIPPING_CODE":"50001|Apartment 825","SHIPPING_CO":"US","HPP_SHIPPING_STREET1":"Apartment 825","HPP_SHIPPING_STREET2":"Complex 741","HPP_SHIPPING_STREET3":"House 963","HPP_SHIPPING_CITY":"Chicago","HPP_SHIPPING_STATE":"IL","HPP_SHIPPING_POSTALCODE":"50001","HPP_SHIPPING_COUNTRY":"840","BILLING_CODE":"59|123","BILLING_CO":"GB","HPP_BILLING_STREET1":"Flat 123","HPP_BILLING_STREET2":"House 456","HPP_BILLING_STREET3":"Unit 4","HPP_BILLING_CITY":"Halifax","HPP_BILLING_POSTALCODE":"W5 9HR","HPP_BILLING_COUNTRY":"826","HPP_CUSTOMER_EMAIL":"james.mason#example.com","HPP_CUSTOMER_PHONENUMBER_MOBILE":"44|07123456789","HPP_PHONE":"44|07123456789","HPP_ADDRESS_MATCH_INDICATOR":"FALSE","HPP_VERSION":"2","SHA1HASH":"308bb8dfbbfcc67c28d602d988ab104c3b08d012"}
I have an API that produces JSON like this:
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{
//JSON DATA
}
The //JSON DATA is valid JSON, but the )]}', up top is not.
When I try to GET this data via a Logic App, I get:
BadRequest. Http request failed: the content was not a valid JSON.
So, a few related questions:
1) Can I tell the logic app to return the invalid JSON anyway?
2) How can debug the issue better? I happen to know that the response is invalid, but what if I didn't? Can I see the raw data somewhere?
3) This is all done via the Azure web portal. Are there better tools? Visual Studio?
I should also mention that if I call a route on the same API that returns XML instead of JSON, then the Logic App works fine. So it definitely doesn't like the JSON response in particular.
Thanks!
First of all, please do not post three questions as a single question.
Question 1). The best thing you can do is make the API return a valid JSON object. This is good for million reasons. Here're a few:
it's pretty much a standard (either valid JSON or XML -- yeah, old school way);
therefore, no users of this API (including you) will need to struggle and guess what's going on and why;
your Logic App's step will just work without adding extra complexity;
you will make this world and your karma better.
If API-side changes are not within your reach, I don't think you can do much. If you're lucky and the HTTP action is successful (Status Code 2xx), you can try to use a Query Action with a function that truncates the first characters. It will look something like this (I don't know the exact syntax): #Substring(body('myHttpGet'), 4, length(body('myHttpGet')) - 4) where myHttpGet is the id of the Http Get action.
However, once again, if possible, I strongly recommend fixing up the API which is the root cause of the problem, instead of dealing with garbage response after that.
UPDATE Another thing you can do is wrap the dirty API. For example, you could create a trivial Azure Function that invokes the API you don't directly control, and sanitizes the response for you consumption requirements. This Azure Function function should be easy to call from the Logic App. It costs almost nothing (unless we're talking millions of requests/month). The only drawback here is the increasing latency, which may be not an issue at all -- test it and see whether it adds less than 100ms or so... Oh, and don't forget to file a ticket with the API owner, they make our world a bad place!
Question 2) In Azure Logic App web UI you can Look into the execution details and the error will definitely be there.
Question 3) You're asking for a tool recommendation which is by definition a highly subjective thing and is off-topic on StackOverflow.
TL/DR: The other app is not producing valid JSON.
Meaning, this is not a problem for you to solve. The other app has to return valid JSON if the owner claims it should.
If they cannot or will not produce valid JSON, then the first thing you need to do is inform your management that you will have to spend a lot of extra time accommodating their non-standard format.
Please forgive my ignorance as I'm a jmeter noob. My webservice accepts JSON objects so I was able to write a rudimentary test where I create an HTTP Request with a JSON object in the "Post Body" portion of the http request.
Anyway, what I want to do is have the HTTP Request choose a different JSON object from a csv file or some other input mechanism so that I can randomize the types of queries that are being run during the load test. Is there a way to do this? The closest is probably using variables (section 4.11 in the user manual) but I have a feeling that's not how variables are used.
A second way I've theorized (although I haven't tried yet since I think the method above is easier) is to create a HTTP Request Default obj with a bunch of HTTP Requests with different JSON objects in them and then use a Random Controller to randomly go thru my multiple HTTP Requests on each pass.
If there's a third way, I'm all ears to learn how to use this tool. I'll continue to read and possibly experiment with plan B above. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
UPDATE: So I tried the second way and it seems to work. I had 3 different HTTP requests and the number of times each request gets hit varies from run to run. I still invite answers from the community since I'd like to see what the pros do for issues similar to mine.
You have partially answered your question yourself, by saying "csv file or". Here are the specifics.
You will have to use CSV data set config in your test plan to read data from CSV. In your post body, use the variables read from CSV.
Here is a screen cast showing how to use csv data set config.
OK so I have authenticated fine and understand JSON including how to process it with PHP...
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
But my issues are that the JSON data that the API returns after hitting up FB...me/home end point is very varied. I understand that so is the data on a FB news stream but...
My end game is to show this info in a mash-up with other data but there seems no clear way of formatting it and each item in the JSON response is hugely different with different values. No consistent "item_type" : "photo / status update / message" that I could use to template it up into nicely formatted content blocks on the front end?
Any suggestions on the best way to process / style this type of vary varied JSON?
Thanks.
I would suggest checking out Google's gson library for parsing through JSON documents. Assuming that you are familiar with Java it makes it relatively easy to develop a custom parser that can adapt to documents stored under a flexible schema.
The library page is here. You can find the JsonReader documentation here.
Edit: It also might help to post some example documents so we can get a better idea of what kinds of results you're getting.
If you view the source of a Google+ profile page, it appears rather complex. It seems most of the data is kept in a huge JSON-like objects. However, they don't seem to be really JSON, since they don't get recognized when I try to decode them. I am hoping the format is more clear to other people here. How would you go about parsing it? It seems it would fairly trivial, if you know where to start.
Here is a sample profile, for example: http://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123
Here's a PHP API I'm working on. It can download and parse the data for a profile page and people's public relationships.
https://github.com/jmstriegel/php.googleplusapi
The JSON piece is a bit mangled. To generate valid JSON, you basically have to remove the first 5 characters that prevent XSRF attacks and then add in all the nulls that have been removed. Here's the code specific to handling parsing the weird Google Plus JSON responses:
https://github.com/jmstriegel/php.googleplusapi/blob/master/lib/GooglePlus/GoogleUtil.php
Call GoogleUtil::FetchGoogleJSON( $url ) and you'll get back a giant array that you can then pull data from. Using this, it should be trivial to make a proxy service to translate stuff into valid json(p) for you to use in your own apps.
I don't have access to Google+ yet, so I'll just answer the general question - that is, how to parse JSON.
JSON is just JavaScript, so parsing it is as simple as evaluating the script. To do this, use the eval() JavaScript function.
var obj = eval('{"JSON":"goes here"}');
Another option is to leverage a console tool. Popular modern browsers pretty much all have them. I recommend Firebug for Firefox in particular.
Using Firefox, log into Google+, then open the Firebug console. You can use the console's dir() command to create a browseable representation of the data. Ex:
console.dir(eval('{"JSON":"goes here"}'));
Sorry I can't be more specific about how to get a handle on Google+'s JSON in particular; without access to the service, this is about the best I can do blind. Good luck!
Thanks to Jason for the excellent php class which reads a profile page into an array.
I've used this class as a base and then parsed it, based upon Russell Beattie's python code from the original appspot rss feed application.
Code here
A few notes:
I use this to merge G+ and WP feeds, hence writing posts into an intermediate array ($items).
I have a convention of creating a pseudo title in Google Plus posts, by emboldening a line and adding two newlines before writing the post. The function getTitle strips this out as a better formatted title in my website and getSummary produces the rest of the post with duplicating the title.
It's made up of a number of parts, an object describing your picasa images, one describing the fields on your profile, one describing your friends.
Most of the long numbers are the internal IDs of people, posts and photos. For instance, my ID is 105249724614922381234. Other than that, it could be parsed if you needed to.