Ticket Created
over 3 years ago

CIQQA-903

Processing JSON with missing root

The following (which is valid JSON) returns  INVALID_HTTP_BODY_IN_NETWORK_RESPONSE.

It's missing the root node but is still valid JSON. Missing the root node is fairy common. So, it should be able to be processed by IQ.

[
{
"name":"aaaa"
},
{
"name":"bbbb"
}
]

The following  is not missing the root node (and works).

 

{
"list" : [
{
"name":"aaaa"
},
{
"name":"bbbb"
}
]
}

dpawlyk
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  • over 3 years ago

    > Maybe it's valid json but sdk need name for dictionary key so error...

    Yes. The makeWebRequest functionality requires the incoming JSON to be a JSON Object (a MonkeyC dictionary). This has come up before, several times. We have not changed the behavior thus far, so I have some doubt that we'd change it unless there was a really good motivation.

    > Why can't the key be an empty string?

    The data that doesn't work that is shown above is a JSON Array, and as I've just explained we expect the web service to provide a JSON Object (a Dictionary). A JSON Object with an empty key is *not* the same as a JSON Array. Example..

    # this is a JSON array

[
  {
    "name":"aaaa"
  },
  {
    "name":"bbbb"
  }
]


# this is a JSON dictionary with an empty string as a key
{
  "": [
        {
          "name":"aaaa"
        },
        {
          "name":"bbbb"
        }
  ]
]

    If the incoming JSON is a valid JSON Object (Dictionary), we should be able to process it.

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  • over 3 years ago

    > Maybe it's valid json but sdk need name for dictionary key so error...

    Yes. The makeWebRequest functionality requires the incoming JSON to be a JSON Object (a MonkeyC dictionary). This has come up before, several times. We have not changed the behavior thus far, so I have some doubt that we'd change it unless there was a really good motivation.

    > Why can't the key be an empty string?

    The data that doesn't work that is shown above is a JSON Array, and as I've just explained we expect the web service to provide a JSON Object (a Dictionary). A JSON Object with an empty key is *not* the same as a JSON Array. Example..

    # this is a JSON array

[
  {
    "name":"aaaa"
  },
  {
    "name":"bbbb"
  }
]


# this is a JSON dictionary with an empty string as a key
{
  "": [
        {
          "name":"aaaa"
        },
        {
          "name":"bbbb"
        }
  ]
]

    If the incoming JSON is a valid JSON Object (Dictionary), we should be able to process it.

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