Lianja Requires Chilkat v11.1.0+

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