How to check whether hash key contain JSON in perl? - json

Question

I am sending a request to the endpoint url ,from there i am getting the response in case of success in form of JSON,but if it fails it return certain text .
Sending request:
$data->{response} = $self->{_http}->send($myData);
So before doing this:
$resp = from_json($data->{response});
i want to check whether the reponse is in json format or not .How we can handle this in Perl kindly help in this

Answer 1

You can catch exception thrown by from_json(),
my $resp;
my $ok = eval { $resp = from_json("{}"); 1 };
$ok or die "Not valid json";
or simpler,
my $resp = eval { from_json("rrr") };
$resp // die "Not valid json";

Answer 2

Use JSON or JSON::XS to decode the JSON into a Perl structure.
Simple example:
use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::XS;
my $json = '[{"Year":"2012","Quarter":"Q3","DataType":"Other 3","Environment":"STEVE","Amount":125},{"Year":"2012","Quarter":"Q4","DataType":"Other 2","Environment":"MIKE","Amount":500}]';
my $arrayref = decode_json $json;
foreach my $item( #$arrayref ) {
# fields are in $item->{Year}, $item->{Quarter}, etc.
}

Answer 3

You could use a try/catch block using Try::Tiny
use Try::Tiny;
try {
$resp = from_json($data->{response});
} catch {
# Do something if it does not parse
warn 'Could not parse json'
};