Anyone ever try to produce JSON style output with WebFOCUS?

If yes, any suggestions on approach?

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Quick answer no, but I would think that forcing WF output into an ASP file would probably be easiest?

T

Thanks T. I was really trying to avoid using ASP or Java for this. I was hoping that someone might have done this using DEFINEs and DOC format. Wishful thinking?

Not really Darryl, I guess that you could get the JS Object into a single field and then hold it HTMTABLE surrounding the result with HTMLFORM and the requisite include files?

T

I'm going to work on a java filter to convert a PCHOLD FORMAT HTMLTABLE to a JSON output. I don't really have an actual problem here, I'm just trying to build more of an auto JSON format so that I can more easily use WF as a source for RIA development instead of PHP, JSP, ASP, etc. with the larger development frameworks available out there today.

Thanks for your help T!

For anyone still looking for a way to generate JSON in a FEX: http://geekswithblogs.net/BI4f...ted-by-webfocus.aspx (which refers to another Focal Point thread).

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[SOLVED] Is there a setting for PCHOLD XML output format?

The best we find to do that is to create a Class Fex that are able to call a fex, this fex is retruning XML and a procedure in this class convert the standard WebFOCUS XML into JSON.

Hope this help.

See this thread:

[CLOSED]create JSON output from structured data