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JSON all the XML all the things

2015-06-18 01:36:16.200504+02 by Dan Lyke 6 comments

Amazon's new API format: XML wrapped in JSON. https://payments.amazon.com/do...on/automatic/201752090#201757720

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#Comment Re: JSON all the XML all the things made: 2015-06-18 03:59:14.107083+02 by: meuon

I was hoping you were kidding and this was a joke: Then I saw it.

#Comment Re: JSON all the XML all the things made: 2015-06-18 04:07:13.644317+02 by: Jack William Bell

What he said...

How do you parse it?

#Comment Re: JSON all the XML all the things made: 2015-06-18 15:16:24.293693+02 by: Dan Lyke [edit history]

You parse it with a regular expression, the same way you parse any XML...

#Comment Re: JSON all the XML all the things made: 2015-06-18 16:17:36.477775+02 by: meuon

Laughing. At some point it has JSON+XML embedded in JSON. And the XML is not very clean. I'd be cutting it into chunks and fixing it with RegEx's.. and then MAYBE parse the chunks with "json_decode" and an XML parser, but I'd be tempted to just suck out what I want with some logic and RegEx's without ever trying to fix it.

#Comment Re: JSON all the XML all the things made: 2015-06-18 18:37:57.32509+02 by: Dan Lyke

The good news is that at least it's apparently not some sort of gawdawful pseudo-XML-ish abomination of a thing like Apache config files or Freeswitch outputs use.

#Comment Re: JSON all the XML all the things made: 2015-06-21 16:12:45.515583+02 by: concept14

At least it can be parsed with open source tools, unlike what somebody at my work once proposed: JSON in Excel spreadsheet cells.

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