Re: Should I use JSON?

2020-05-21 Thread Tim Cross
stan writes: > Worming on a small project, and have been doing a lot of Perl scripting to > parse various types of files to populate the database. Now I need to get > data from a cloud services provider (time-keeping). They have a REST API > that returns data in a JSOSN format. > > So here is

RE: Should I use JSON?

2020-05-21 Thread Zahir Lalani
...@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Should I use JSON? On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:37 AM stan mailto:st...@panix.com>> wrote: Worming on a small project, and have been doing a lot of Perl scripting to parse various types of files to populate the database. Now I need to get data from a cloud services pr

Re: Should I use JSON?

2020-05-21 Thread pabloa98
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:37 AM stan wrote: > Worming on a small project, and have been doing a lot of Perl scripting to > parse various types of files to populate the database. Now I need to get > data from a cloud services provider (time-keeping). They have a REST API > that returns data in a

Re: Should I use JSON?

2020-05-21 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:37 AM stan wrote: > So here is the question, should I just manually parse this data, as I have > been doing to insert into appropriate entities into the database? Or > should I > insert the JSON data, and use some queries in the database to populate my > tables from the

Re: Should I use JSON?

2020-05-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 5/21/20 8:37 AM, stan wrote: Worming on a small project, and have been doing a lot of Perl scripting to parse various types of files to populate the database. Now I need to get data from a cloud services provider (time-keeping). They have a REST API that returns data in a JSOSN format. So