(Visual FoxPro) JSON Hex Encoding

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Let's say your JSON contains content that is hex encoded like this: \u05d1\u05d3\u05d9\u05e7

This example shows how to get the decoded string.

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LOCAL s
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loSb

s = '{ "example": "\u05d1\u05d3\u05d9\u05e7" }'

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject')
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')

lnSuccess = loJson.Load(s)

* When getting the member data, it is automatically decoded.
? "member data: " + loJson.StringOf("example")

* Output:
* member data: בדיק

* When getting the full JSON, it remains encoded. This is expected and intentional.
? "full JSON: " + loJson.Emit()

* Output:
* full JSON: {"example":"\u05d1\u05d3\u05d9\u05e7"}

* To get the full JSON without the encoding, you can decode manually.
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder')
loSb = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loJson.EmitSb(loSb)
* The hex encoding used by JSON is utf-8.
loSb.Decode("json","utf-8")

? loSb.GetAsString()

* Output:
* {"example":"בדיק"}

RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loSb