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JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby AnandB » Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:18 pm

Hi,

I have a query regarding JSON PARSE statement; and corresponding COBOL declaration.

For the following JSON the corresponding COBOL declaration would be

JSON
client-data":{
"account-num":123456789012,
"balance":-125.53,
"billing-info":{
"name-first":"John",
"name-last":"Smith",
"addr-street":"12345 First Avenue",
"addr-city":"New York",
"addr-region":"New York",
"addr-code":"10203"
}
}

COBOL Declaration.
01 client-data.
03 account-num pic 999,999,999,999.
03 balance pic $$$9.99CR.
03 billing-info.
05 name-first pic X(20).
05 name-last pic X(20).
05 addr-street pic X(20).
05 addr-city pic X(20).
05 addr-region pic X(20).
05 addr-code pic X(10).

What would be the corresponding COBOL declaration if the JSON started with a "[" i,e. if the JSON looks like

client-data":[
"account-num":123456789012,
"balance":-125.53,
"billing-info":{
"name-first":"John",
"name-last":"Smith",
"addr-street":"12345 First Avenue",
"addr-city":"New York",
"addr-region":"New York",
"addr-code":"10203"
}
]

Thank you
Anand B.
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:14 pm

meditating on the cobol manual at the section "Handling JSON arrays"
will tell all You might want to know about the relative cobol declaration

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... ml04d.html
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby AnandB » Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:36 am

Thank you Enrico.

{"some-data":{"msg":[{"ver":5,"uid":10,"txt":"Hello"},{"ver":5,"uid":11,"txt":"World"},{"ver":5,"uid":12,"txt":"!"}]}}

Working-storage section.
1 some-data.
2 msg occurs 3.
4 ver usage comp-1.
4 uid pic 9999 usage display.
4 txt pic x(32).

The JSON I am working with has "[" before "msg"; something like
{"some-data":["msg":[{"ver":5,"uid":10,"txt":"Hello"},{"ver":5,"uid":11,"txt":"World"},{"ver":5,"uid":12,"txt":"!"}]]}.

some-data should be an array in this case, we cannot have occurs at 01 level in COBOL. The JSON is well within JSON standards.
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby AnandB » Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:07 am

I used a dummy variable at level 01; followed by JSON data variables with occurs clause. In the Parse command I parsed JSON in the dummy variable with OMIT option. It looks to be working now. Thank you.
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby Pvernekar » Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:55 pm

Hello team,

I am trying to parse the response form an API which looks as below.
01 jsonp-rec PIC X(1000).
[{"countryCode": "FR","formStatusChangeReason": "","id": "XXX-XX-XXXX","signatureDate": "2018-01-01","status": " ","type": "AB"}]

01 resp-rec.
05 countryCode PIC X(02).
05 formStatusChangeReason PIC X(40).
05 id-n PIC X(12).
05 signatureDate PIC X(10).
05 status-c PIC X(01).
05 type-c PIC X(02).

JSON PARSE JSONP-REC INTO resp-rec WITH DETAIL
NAME resp-rec IS OMITTED.

IGZ0335W During execution of the JSON PARSE statement on line 372 of program JPARPGM, the JSON text in JSONP-REC was found to be invalid. At offset 0, X'BA' was found, but one of LEFT CURLY BRACKET was expected.

and data is not parsed . Could you please suggest.
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby sergeyken » Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:15 am

2023 - 2019 = 4 years old topic
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby Robert Sample » Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:32 am

First, you'll need to figure out a way to remove that leading [ and the trailing ] since JSON PARSE won't deal with them.

Second, JSON PARSE works with UTF-8 data -- and PIC X is NOT UTF-8. In COBOL, PIC U is UTF-8.

Third, your COBOL code has ID-N, STATUS-C, TYPE-C and none of these variables are in the JSON input so none of them will be parsed out. You need to either change the COBOL names or the JSON variables.
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby Pvernekar » Wed Mar 29, 2023 11:10 pm

Thanks Robert.
I tried with as mentioned above changing the [, UTF-8 and json variables matching teh cobol declarations.

01 jsonp-rec PIC U(1000).
{"countryCode": "FR","formStatusChangeReason": "","id-n": "XXX-XX-XXXX","signatureDate": "2018-01-01","status-c": " ","type-c": "AB"}

During compilation I got this error
IGYPA3365-S Operand "JSONP-REC (UTF-8 ITEM)" was found in the "JSON" statement b
"UTF-8" operands are not supported for the "JSON" statement. The
statement was discarded.
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby Robert Sample » Wed Mar 29, 2023 11:49 pm

Try making JSONP-REC a structure. The code I tested with is:
Select all
01  JSONP-REC.                                          
    05                          PIC U(58)   VALUE        
    '{"COUNTRYCODE": "FR","FORMSTATUSCHANGEREASON": "",'.
    05                          PIC U(58)   VALUE        
    '"ID-N": "XXX-XX-XXXX",'.                            
    05                          PIC U(58)   VALUE        
    '"SIGNATUREDATE": "2018-01-01","STATUS-C": "C",'.    
    05                          PIC U(58)   VALUE        
    '"TYPE-C": "AB"}'.                                  
    05                          PIC U(58)   VALUE SPACE.
    05                          PIC U(768)  VALUE SPACE.
                                                         
01  OUTPUT-REC.                                          
    05 RESP-REC                   OCCURS 01 .            
        10 COUNTRYCODE            PIC X(02).            
        10 FORMSTATUSCHANGEREASON PIC X(40).            
        10 ID-N                   PIC X(12).            
        10 SIGNATUREDATE          PIC X(10).            
        10 STATUS-C               PIC X(01).            
        10 TYPE-C                 PIC X(02).            

     JSON PARSE JSONP-REC                  
     INTO RESP-REC (01) WITH DETAIL        
     NAME RESP-REC IS OMITTED.            
                                           
     DISPLAY 'COUNTRYCODE '                
         COUNTRYCODE(01) .                
     DISPLAY 'FORMSTATUSCHANGEREASON '    
         FORMSTATUSCHANGEREASON(01) .      
     DISPLAY 'ID-N '                      
         ID-N(01) .                        
     DISPLAY 'SIGNATUREDATE '              
         SIGNATUREDATE(01) .              
     DISPLAY 'STATUS-C '                  
         STATUS-C(01) .                    
     DISPLAY 'TYPE-C '                    
         TYPE-C(01) .                      
and the results are:
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COUNTRYCODE FR                                
FORMSTATUSCHANGEREASON                        
ID-N XXX-XX-XXXX                              
SIGNATUREDATE 2018-01-01                      
STATUS-C C                                    
TYPE-C AB                                      
RESP-REC is an array because I was testing to see if there's a way to handle the leading [ -- I couldn't find one.
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Re: JSON Parse Command for a JSON that starts with [

Postby Robert Sample » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:29 am

I was just doing some research and found out that the PIC U clause is new to Enterprise COBOL 6.3. Earlier versions of COBOL may have a toleration PTF for this (if there is one) but 6.3 is the only release I know for sure allows PIC U.
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