arrayencode

[Alex Tweedly]

On 23/06/2022 10:31, Ralf Bitter via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> the JSONtoArray() function is part of the mergJSON external.
> The README of this external describes how to use this function
> and it's counterpart JSONtoArray as follows:
>
Thanks Ralf. I did see that code in the dictionary - but it also says 
that those functions are provided in 
thews.goulding.script-library.mergjson library, so (I think) I shouldn't 
need to put them in myself.

In fact, I did try it anyway - but that simply changes the error to 
"handler not found: mergJSONDecode"

> Another option would be to load the JSON extension and to use
> the JsonImport() function.
>
Didn't know about jsonImport; it's not mentioned in the dictionary, but 
I now see it shows up in a few lessons, etc.

However,I think the real problem for me is "... to load the JSON 
extension ...". I wasn't aware I had to load those extensions which are 
already part of the standard package (maybe I did that years ago and 
have had time to forget :-).

I can't find anything about loading extensions other than what to do in 
the IDE.

How do you load extensions to LC Server ?  On a shared web provider ?  
(on-rev)

Thanks,
Alex

>
> Ralf
>
>
>
> On 23.06.22 01:31, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>> On 22/06/2022 17:02, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>>> [ ... about using JSON ... ]
>>> But if you don't need interoperability, you wouldn't need to write a 
>>> parser, since LC includes a good one built into the engine.
>>>
>>> What did I miss?
>>>
>> The fact that Livecode's support for JSON is, hmmm, mediocre at best ??
>>
>> The parser "built-in" seems to work fine in the IDE, but not on the 
>> server :
>>
>>> <?lc
>>> set the errormode to inline
>>> put the version
>>>
>>> put "{'name':'asdf'}" into t
>>> replace "'" with quote in t
>>> put JSONtoarray(t) into tA
>>> put the keys of tA
>>>
>> fails with -
>>
>> file "/home/alextwee/public_html/rampuk/tJSON.lc"
>>    row 7, col 5: Function: error in function handler (JSONtoarray)
>>    row 7, col 5: put: error in expression
>>
>> (there's no mention of any platform restricitons in the dictionary).
>>
>> I tried copying in the sample ode for wrapping JSONToArray around 
>> mergJSONDecode,
>> which then fails with "error in function handler mergJSONDecode.
>>
>>
>> (I must admit I encountered this a while ago, figured it was probably 
>> a temporary issue
>> so I replaced JSON by LSON, and forgot all about it.) This discussion 
>> prompted me to re-try it.
>>
>> I can't believe this problem isn't causing widespread problems, so 
>> it's probably
>> something specific about me, or my on-rev account. If anyone has 
>> suggestions, I'll
>> try them; if not, I'll put it as a bug report into QCC see what happens.
>>
>> Alex.
>
>
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