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ITIDA Create Canonical JSON

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Demonstrates creating the canonical (ITIDA) version of a JSON document. The document in the example is the one at https://sdk.invoicing.eta.gov.eg/files/one-doc.json

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.92 or greater.

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oSb
LOCAL cCanonical
LOCAL oSbExpected

nSuccess := 0

//  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.92 or greater.
//  (In v9.5.0.92, the "itida" encoding was added to StringBuilder's Encode method.)
oSb := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

//  This is the file at https://sdk.invoicing.eta.gov.eg/files/one-doc.json
nSuccess := oSb:LoadFile("qa_data/itida/sdk.invoicing.eta.gov.eg/files/one-doc.json", "utf-8")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? "Failed to load input file."
    oSb:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Convert the contents of sb to the ITIDA canonical form.
//  Always pass utf-8 for the 2nd arg.
oSb:Encode("itida", "utf-8")

cCanonical := oSb:GetAsString()

? cCanonical

//  Output: 
//  "SomeValue""DELIVERY""APPROACH""SomeValue""PACKAGING""SomeValue""DATEVALIDITY""2020-09-28T09:30:10Z"........."TOTALAMOUNT""5191.50""EXTRADISCOUNTAMOUNT""5.00""TOTALITEMSDISCOUNTAMOUNT""14.00"

//  Let's verify we got the correct result.
oSbExpected := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
nSuccess := oSbExpected:LoadFile("qa_data/itida/sdk.invoicing.eta.gov.eg/files/one-doc-serialized.json.txt", "utf-8")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? "Failed to expected output file."
    oSb:destroy()
    oSbExpected:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Compare our computed canonical string with the expected result.
IF (oSb:ContentsEqualSb(oSbExpected, 1) == 1)
    ? "The computed canonical result is correct."
ELSE
    ? "The computed canonical result is NOT correct."
ENDIF

oSb:destroy()
oSbExpected:destroy()