Re: Perl and bad characters - Solved!

[Bill Stephenson]

I found the simple “append” solution I was looking for on stackoverflow.com:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21718486/need-to-add-new-data-to-json-array-in-perl
 
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21718486/need-to-add-new-data-to-json-array-in-perl>

Thank you all again for the help!

I’ve included the working script below. If anyone has suggestions for 
improvements please let me know.

Kindest Regards,

Bill Stephenson


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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::XS;
use Data::Dumper;
use CGI;
use LWP::Simple;

my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $msg;

# Get and print the post doc ID:
my $id = $cgi->param('postID');    
# $msg = "id:  $id";
# &print_message($msg);  

# Get the blog post from CouchDB
my $url = "https://user:pass\@cherrypc.com:6984/cherrypc/$id";;

my $blogdoc = get $url;
die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $blogdoc;

# convert json to perl object
my $data_structure = decode_json($blogdoc);
 
# $msg = "Doc Title: ". $data_structure->{'title'};
# &print_message;

# $msg = "data_structure: \n" . Dumper($data_structure);
# &print_message($msg);

# -----------------------------------------
#Append the list of comments:

my $newCommentDate = $cgi->param('commentDate');     
my $newComment = $cgi->param('comment');  

my $newdata = {commentDate=>"$newCommentDate",comment=>"$newComment"};
push @{ $data_structure->{'comments'}  }, $newdata;
# -----------------------------------------

# convert perl object back to json 
my $updatedDoc = encode_json $data_structure;

# Update the document
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(PUT => $url);
$req->content_type('application/json');
$req->content($updatedDoc);

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; 
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# $res is an HTTP::Response.

if ($res->is_success) {
    $msg = "Success: ". $res->as_string;
    &print_message($msg);
  }
  else {
    $msg =  "Failed: ". $res->status_line;
    &print_message($msg);
  }

# $msg = Dumper($res);
# &print_message($msg);

print $cgi->header('text/plain;charset=UTF-8');  
  
exit;

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sub print_message {
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        open (DUMPFILE, ">>/usr/lib/cgi-bin/debug.txt") or die "Unable to open 
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/debug.txt \n";
        print DUMPFILE "\n------------------- message ------------------- \n";
        print DUMPFILE "$msg";
        print DUMPFILE "\n--------------------- end --------------------- \n";
        close(DUMPFILE);
        $msg = "";
        return;
}