> If the website is returning JSON, if you can just pass $oResponse instead of
> $response and 4D will do the "JSON Parse” for you automatically.
Tim, thanks. At first I did not understand, but got it now...
C_OBJECT($oResponse)
HTTP Request(HTTP GET method;$url;$content;$oResponse)
The HTTP Request command sees JSON coming in and an object for the response and
automatically parses it in the object…. Neat. Thanks.
John
> On Jun 2, 2019, at 9:36 AM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On Jun 2, 2019, at 2:00 PM, JOHN BAUGHMAN wrote:
>
>> Thanks Kirk. Yes after looking through the 2 I think zipcodeapi is the
>> better choice. I registered my app and with a simple http request already
>> have what I needed….
>>
>> C_TEXT($response)
>> C_OBJECT($oResponse)
>> $$zipcode:="96734"
>> $clientKey:=“;alks;dlfakjldflajdkl"
>>
>> $url:="https://www.zipcodeapi.com/rest/"+$clientKey+"/info.json/"+$zipcode+"/radians”
>> HTTP Request(HTTP GET method;$url;$content;$response)
>>
>> $oResponse:=JSON Parse($response)
>> $city:=$oResponse.city
>> $state=$oResponse.state
>>
>> Didn’t think it would be that easy. Hope this post helps someone else down
>> the line.
>
> I had the same experience with Twilio for sending SMS from 4D. It was so easy
> to use HTTP Request when the website has a well designed API.
>
> If the website is returning JSON, if you can just pass $oResponse instead of
> $response and 4D will do the "JSON Parse” for you automatically.
>
> Tim
>
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