I've been doing research in order to write an API for a school project, and when referencing the API documentation of YouTube and Twitter, I see API URLs like this
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/settings.json
My understanding was that you execute a method on the backend which will return information to the caller, but I thought those files had to be of extension type .py or .java or whatever language you're using, and JSON was just the return type. I've been unable to find any information on how a .json file works in this example. Is there code in settings.json that is being executed?
JSON is just a format of your data, that you can then use, for example in JavaScript.
It is back-end language independent. By this I mean, that front-end of the application does not care who produced .json file.
Maybe it was Java application, maybe it was Python, or PHP application it does not matter. It can be also static file, with fixed content which just has json format.
After you receive such thing in front-end, you can do with it whatever you want. From your perspective it will be probably some kind of nested array.
In example you provided, I get:
{"errors":[{"code":215,"message":"Bad Authentication data."}]}
And it is fine, it's just data you get. It is JSON format - that is true. But you don't care that path has .json in the URL, it could have any extension, what is important is what's inside.
That is a beauty of JSON. You can prepare for yourself static file with mocked data in JSON format, and use it while developing front-end of the application. When you wish, you can have back-end application which will return real data for your app.
You can also see here, how to return json file from PHP:
Returning JSON from a PHP Script
Or here to see how to do it in Python (Django Framework):
Creating a JSON response using Django and Python
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In my karate tests i need to write response id's to txt files (or any other file format such as JSON), was wondering if it has any capability to do this, I haven't seen otherwise in the documentation. In the case of no, is there a simple JavaScript function to do so?
Try the karate.write(value, filename) API but we don't encourage it. Also the file will be written only to the current "build" directory which will be target for Maven projects / stand-alone JAR.
value can be any data-type, and Karate will write the bytes (or plain-text) out. There is no built-in support for any other format.
Here is an example.
EDIT: for others coming across this answer in the future the right thing to do is:
don't write files in the first place, you never need to do this, and this question is typically asked by inexperienced folks who for some reason think that the only way to "save" a response before validation is to write it to a file. No, please don't waste your time - and please just match against the response. You can save it (or parts of it) to variables while you make other HTTP requests. And do not write your tests so that scenarios (or features) depend on other scenarios, this is a very bad practice. Also note that by default, Karate will dump all HTTP requests and responses in the log file (typically in target/karate.log) and also in the HTML report.
see if karate.write() works for you as per this answer
write a custom Java (or JS function that uses the JVM) to do what you want using Java interop
Also note that you can use karate.toCsv() to convert JSON into CSV if needed.
My justification for writing to a file is a different one. I am using karate explicitly to implement a mock. I want to expose an endpoint wherein the upstream system will send some basic data through json payload using POST/PUT method and karate will construct the subsequent payload file and stores it the specific folder, and this newly created payload file will be exposed through another GET call.
I have a url similar to https://www.nonexistentsite.com/fubar.json where fubar.json is a public json file which will download to your file system if you navigate to the url with your browser. I have a React web app where I want to read that file directly so as to display some of its data. I don't want to bother with any kind of a backend that would download the file to the apps file system so that it can read it. I want the React front end to read it directly in it's client side code with a fetch or an axios call or something like that. I'm familiar with the typical situation where I have a REST url like https://www.nonexistentsite.com/fubar which I can call and get the data. I'm failing to find info on how to handle this situation.
You could use Axios to load the data from the json file.
Example usage;
axios.get('https://www.nonexistentsite.com/fubar.json')
.then(jsoncontent => {
console.log(jsoncontent);
//do stuff with jsoncontent here
});
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but I believe if you are just needing to fetch the json from a hosted file, you should be able to do so with axios.get(url)
I'm new in it and trying to understand Azure Logic Apps.
I would like to create a LogicApp that:
Looks for new XML-Files
and for each file:
Read the XML
Check if Node "attachment" is present
and for each Attachment:
Read the Filename
Get the File from FTP and do BASE64-encoding
End for each Attachment.
Write JSON File (I have a schema)
DO HTTP-Post to API with JSON file as "application/json"
Is this possible with the Logic-Apps?
Yes, you can.
Check if a node is present, with xpath expression (e.g. xpath(xml(item()),'string(//Part/#ref)'))
For Get File from FTP, use the action FTP - Get File Content
Write JSON File, use the action Data Operations - Compose. If you need transformations, you have to use an Integration Account and Maps.
Do HTTP Post to API, use de action HTTP
I'm learning how to use a third party API called Wunderground and I don't know how to request, receive, and use their results which is in a Json format.
If you see their website a developer can sign up for free and receives an API KEY. You can then request weather data in the following URL format.. http://api.wunderground.com/api/KEY/FEATURE/[FEATURE…]/[SETTING…]/q/QUERY.FORMAT
So I have tried it in my web browser by typing some parameters and I received a very long Json file with the correct information (I checked). Problem is I don't have the slightest idea of how to create a variable which can make this request, and even if I was able to do that I don't know where should I receive the file and how to get only the results I want (in this case current weather).
You have to use Titanium.Network.HTTPClient to make request.
For code examples related to Json parsing you can use:
Appcelerator: Using JSON to Build a Twitter Client
HTTPClient()
It seems that Yahoo pipes are represented using JSON. I want to download these JSON objects for some research purpose. Usually a Yahoo pipe is rendered in a browser editor thru a url like this: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=XgRo96h13BGtJWvS8SvLAg, but you can't get the corresponding JSON object to this Yahoo pipe. Does anyone know how to get JSON objects representing Yahoo pipes and store them in any persistent form?
It is possible to get hold of a JSON description of a Yahoo Pipe using a URL of the form:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_out=json&_id=PIPE_ID
The pipe2py python library demonstrates how to grab the JSON description of a pipe and "compile" it to a Python equivalent that can be run on your own server.
The post Exporting Yahoo Pipe Definitions, Compiling Them to Python, and Running Them in Scraperwiki describes how you can use pipe2py in the Scraperwiki environment to compile and execute pipes on Scraperwiki using pipe definitions imported directly from Yahoo Pipes, or exported from Yahoo Pipes and then stored locally in a Scraperwiki database table.
When I load that page in a browser I can see that it makes an ajax request for:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ajax.pipe.load?id=XgRo96h13BGtJWvS8SvLAg&_out=json&modinfo=true&rnd=7560&.crumb=MjvGjpzhPLl
That's your object but I'm not sure if I'm answering your question of how to "get it". If you need to get it through a program you would need a script that loges into pipes and extracts that url.
A quick way, while not automated, is to use an HTTP analyzer. Here's a process for getting the object using HttpFox (I use v0.8.9) for Firefox. With the analyzer running, load the edit page for a pipe, like the one you linked:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=XgRo96h13BGtJWvS8SvLAg
Look at the request with a URL that starts with:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ajax.pipe.load?id=....
Next, explore the content of the request (there's a 'Content' tab in HttpFox). That's the JSON object representing the pipe structure.
Use pipe.run?[your pipe id here]&_render=json as opposed to pipe.edit
So in your case to get the json it would be - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=XgRo96h13BGtJWvS8SvLAg&_render=json
I guess how you implement the client is dependent on what you like writing in/what other functionality you need.
You could also do it the other way around and use the web service service module to post the data to a script that can extract the json and persist it to a database. You could check out json.org.