Hello,

I thought I would put this out to see what helpful information I could gather.

I am in need of some JSON and HTTP functionality. I am thinking about using some pieces from WST and I was looking for some input on this.

What I am doing is pulling data from a JSON-RESTful web application and storing it in SQLite as Key / Value Pairs along with some meta data.

This data will be pushed back to same web application on some interval.

Additionally, I would like cross-platform compatibility between Linux/Windows{,-mobile?}/Android.

Any thoughts?

Why do you need WST for this ? if it is REST (something WST knows nothing about), then you'll work just fine with only the fpJSON and synapse stacks ?

Michael.

I was looking at the TJsonRpcBaseFormatter as well as the factory implementations *_http_protocol units.

Seemed like some of the work had been done here.

These protocols are aimed towards RPC, which is not something I associate with REST implementations, so your solution seems confusing.

Without more details it is hard to give advice...

Michael.

Thank you, your input is helpful. It has been some time since I have used the tools.

I thought the json parsing in the TJsonRpcBaseFormatter may be a good starting place. To my semi-trained eye it will deserialize the json into a TStack object, but I have not done any testing yet. Am I not interpretting this correctly?

As far as the http stack goes -- I'm open. I recall from my past experience that synapse is stable and lightweight.

After some rudimentary testing I believe that TJsonRpcBaseFormatter is not suitable for this implementation. Although I may draw inspiration from the code.

Thank you for your insight.

You may want to try the fpjsonrtti unit to transform objects into RTTI and vice versa. I use it myself heavily to implement data traffic in a webserver.

Michael.

I agree. I intend to study that unit in more detail. The end result I want is to transform json as a string or stream to a map. I don't think it will be too difficult. My first thought was to use TJSONDeStreamer and TJSONStreamer from fpjsonrtti. Then I became distracted by all the shiny factory stuff in WST. -)

As it turns out I was over thinking the task or underestimating the fcl. As was posted by Michael Van Canneyt fpjson met my needs.

Thanks for the help.