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chrigu
Guide
11 years ago

REST response to JSON

Hi there   I'm building an endpoint and I would like to output the response of the following REST call as plain JSON:   <#assign ideaBoards = rest("/categories/id/mycategory/boards/style/idea?res...
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phani
Advisor
11 years ago

You can get json response by appending parameter ?xslt=json.xsl in REST call.

 

E.g.: 

<#assign ideaBoards = rest("/categories/id/mycategory/boards/style/idea?restapi.response_style=view&xslt=json.xsl") />

 

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    chrigu
    Guide
    11 years ago

    phani 

     

    Thanks for the reply, but we woud like to filter some of the returned data and then return it as JSON. This means we would like to convert a XML node to JSON.

     

    Currently we do something like:

     

    <#assign cleanPost = {
    "postLink": post.@view_href?string,
    "postKudos": post.kudos.count?number,
    "postPostTime": post.post_time.@view_time?string,
    "postPostDate": post.post_time.@view_date?string,
    "postTeaser": utils.html.stripper.from.gdata.strip(post.teaser?string)?json_string,
    "postViews": post.views.count?string,
    "postSubject": post.subject?json_string,
    "postAuthor": post.author.login?json_string
    }
    />

     

    and then orginise our data in arrays and dictionaries and, finally, use this conversion macro to return the data.