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POST JSON to REST API with non-us-ascii Chars Escaped

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Demonstrates how to POST to a REST API with non-usascii chars within JSON Unicode escaped. Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

llSuccess = .F.

loRest = createobject("CkRest")

// Connect using TLS.
llBAutoReconnect = .T.
llSuccess = loRest.Connect("chilkatsoft.com",443,.T.,llBAutoReconnect)

// Load JSON containing the following Korean text.

//  {
//    "BillAddr": {
//       "Id": "239615",
//       "Line1": "류리하",
//       "Line2": "류리하류리하",
//       "City": "류리하류리하",
//       "Country": "US",
//       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
//       "PostalCode": "류리하"
//     }
// }

loJson = createobject("CkJsonObject")
loJson.EmitCompact = .F.
llSuccess = loJson.LoadFile("qa_data/json/korean.json")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loJson.LastErrorText
    release loRest
    release loJson
    return
endif

llSuccess = loRest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=UTF-8")

loSb = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
loJson.EmitSb(loSb)
loSb.Encode("unicodeescape","utf-8")

? loSb.GetAsString()

// The StringBuilder contains this:

// {
//   "BillAddr": {
//     "Id": "239615",
//     "Line1": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
//     "Line2": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
//     "City": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
//     "Country": "US",
//     "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
//     "PostalCode": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558"
//   }
// }

loSbResp = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
llSuccess = loRest.FullRequestSb("POST","/echo_request_body.asp",loSb,loSbResp)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    release loRest
    release loJson
    release loSb
    release loSbResp
    return
endif

// Show the response. 
? "Json Response: " + loSbResp.GetAsString()


release loRest
release loJson
release loSb
release loSbResp