[sf-perl] REST data parsing
David Alban
extasia at extasia.org
Tue Sep 7 17:25:37 PDT 2010
greetings,
i know little about REST. i've been told that this example string is
rest data, something returned by some RESTful process:
{"FraudCheckMonitorResults":"TrinityCheck":1,"AccertifyCheck":1,"NumRetryListings":1,"NumRetryOrders":1,"NumPurchasedStuckOrders":1,"NumAcceptedListings":1,"NumAcceptedOrders":1,"NumRejectedListings":1,"NumRejectedOrders":1,"NumReviewedListings":1,"NumReviewedOrders":1}}
a local java developer asked me (the local perl guy) how to get this
string into a perl data structure. when i asked, he confirmed he
wanted something like this:
FraudCheckMonitorResults => {
TrinityCheck => 1,
AccertifyCheck => 1,
NumRetryListings => 1,
NumRetryOrders => 1,
NumPurchasedStuckOrders => 1,
NumAcceptedListings => 1,
NumAcceptedOrders => 1,
NumRejectedListings => 1,
NumRejectedOrders => 1,
NumReviewedListings => 1,
NumReviewedOrders => 1,
};
i was about to code it when i asked if this was a standard data
format, thinking why should i reinvent this particular wheel? maybe
cpan has something. i was told it was REST data. but my impressive
lack of knowledge about REST is not helping. i took a brief look on
search.cpan.org. i'll keep looking, but i haven't found anything yet
that looks like it might deal with the kind of string above.
questions:
* is the string at the top of the email REST data?
* if so, are there cpan libraries with routines that will parse these
kind of strings, resulting in the kind of data structures shown above?
thanks,
david
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