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Decode HTML Entity Encoded JSON

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Decodes an HTML entity encoded string to JSON. SQL Server

-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    DECLARE @sb int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringBuilder', @sb OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sb, 'Append', @success OUT, '{&quot;xyz&quot;: &quot;abc&quot;}'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sb, 'EntityDecode', @success OUT

    -- This is a test comment;
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sb, 'GetAsString', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- Output is:

    -- {"xyz": "abc"}

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sb


END
GO