arrayencode

[Ralf Bitter]

On 23.06.22 14:23, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
> 
> 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"


Hi Alex, have you added the mergJSON External to your server 
installation? I have just tested this again, actually it should work.
My LC Server version is 9.6.6.


> 
>> 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)

You guessed it, use "load extension", example (tested on on-rev):

load extension from file 
"/home/rabit/public_html/ritest/application/extensions/com.livecode.library.json/module.lcm"


Ralf


> 
> 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.