Generating JSON for PBCS REST API 1

Second blog post of the day!!!

You might be thinking what is this guy upto. Well let’s say that if I’m in a meeting and if it does interest me, my mind wanders here and there. Now when it wanders these are the outcome of those 🙂

Pete had this question about PBCS exportdataslice REST API command, it is funny that we (Tim Tow and me) were discussing about this yesterday and I find this question today http://www.network54.com/Forum/58296/thread/1473926464/last-1473963834/%28View+Thread+and+Replies%21%29

Now if you are working with PBCS REST API, you’ll have to deal with JSON. You can read about JSON all here. I’ll say that is the future long gone are the XML days.

Here is the first post on the productivity tools that I was talking about.

This one uses a nice plugin in Notepad ++ called JSTool (now how you want to read it is absolutely upto you ;))

I’m also an online link called http://www.objgen.com, ObjGen have 3 object generators and one among them is a JSON generator.

You can look at a demo and have a feel for it here

Now generating the JSON is pretty easy.

For example this is what I did to generate the JSON, you can use spaces/tabs to define complex values

Now you’ll have to do a little bit of formatting to make it pretty (java escaping is what you are seeing here “)

You can copy it and paste it in Notepad ++,

All I did was to find and replace

• “” with “
• “” with “
• “[ ” with [“
• ” ]” with “]