JSON Functions
Description
Alpha Anywhere provides the following functions for working with JSON data.
- Name
- Description
- a5_compact_json Function
Generates a compacted JSON string as a pointer variable.
- a5_expand_json Function
Combines field mappings and JSON data into a single JSON string.
- a5_getCalendarEventDataJSON Function
Used in the UX Component for the Calendar Control to get events for a date range in the required JSON format.
- a5_json_extractValues Function
Extracts name/value pairs from a JSON string.
- a5_json_populateArray Function
Takes an array of JSON objects and populates an Xbasic property array.
- a5_json_prep Function
Removes null values from a property object.
- a5_json_to_excel Function
Exports data in a JSON document to an Excel file.
- a5_json_viewer Function
The a5_json_viewer function can be used to open a viewer for JSON data.
- a5_MakeJSONIndexFile Function
Takes an input JSON file (an array of objects) and creates two files. An index file with just the key fields and offset and length, and a raw file with the original data
- a5_makeJsonTree Function
Takes an array and makes a JSON tree. Array has these properties at a minimum: .label, .level.
- a5_merge_json_into_template Function
The a5_merge_JSON_into_template function merges JSON data into a client-side template.
- a5_sql_nested_query_to_json_document Function
Execute queries against one or more SQL databases, returning the result as a JSON document.
- a5_sql_schema_to_json Function
Generates a JSON object describing a schema for a SQL database.
- a5_url_from_storageJSONFormat Function
Generates a signed URL to download a file from Amazon S3 storage.
- a5_XbasicTreeToJsonTree Function
Converts a CRLF delimited string that Xdialog uses for Tree Control data to a JSON string.
- a5w_ajaxToJSON Function
Dumps out JSON from a data source.
- a5wcb_convertFriendlyMenuToExpandingMenuJSONData Function
Generates the JSON to populate an Expanding Menu control from a 'friendly' menu definition.
- argumentsFromJSON Function
Appends arguments to an argument object from a JSON argument definition
- argumentsToJSON Function
Serializes arguments to a JSON string.
- crlf_to_json Function
Convert a CR-LF delimited list of records into a JSON object.
- csv_to_json Function
Convert a comma-delimited CSV string to JSON.
- handlebars_template_merge Function
Merges JSON data into a template using Handlebars syntax.
- json_combineProperties Function
Combines the properties in two JSON strings into a single JSON string.
- json_composite Function
Turns flat lists into a tree structure.
- json_delete Function
Remove any nested array member that matches pattern.
- json_enumerate Function
Lists all of the top level property names.
- json_extract Function
Extracts a property from a JSON object.
- json_filter Function
The json_filter() Function - Extracts or omits certain properties from a JSON string. NOTE: Conceptually, this function is similar to the filter_string() function, except that it operates on JSON strings.
- json_flatten Function
The json_flatten function takes a JSON string that defines an array of hierarchical objects and 'flattens' the array.
- json_flatten_default Function
Takes JSON with nested arrays and "flattens" the JSON so that there are no nested arrays.
- json_flatten_singlerow Function
Takes a JSON string with nested arrays and flattens the JSON so that there are no nested arrays. Data from the nested arrays are represented represented in the parent data as a set of repeating fields.
- json_from_bson Function
BSON was created by the developers of Mongo DB. BSON is JSON data that is converted to binary. The json_from_bson() function converts BSON data back into JSON.
- json_from_xml Function
Produces JSON from xml. The subformat of XML is the Atom format.
- json_from_xml_OData Function
Takes OData format xml, which is basically feed xml. Feeds are a number of items. Allows you to convert xml that has been retrieved from a service that has Atom xml output of OData 2.0 or earlier.
- json_from_yaml Function
Converts a string containing YAML to JSON.
- json_generate Function
Generate takes a variable, an Xbasic dot variable, and returns a string containing a JavaScript object literal.
- json_get_array_length Function
Returns the length of a JSON array.
- json_normalize Function
Generates a grouped JSON content from a flat JSON object list, and supplied columns to group on.
- json_parse Function
The json_parse function parses a string in JSON format and returns an Xbasic dot variable.
- json_path Function
Extracts a portion of a JSON string.
- json_reformat Function
Takes json and reformats it so that it is presented on one line or extended to include multiple lines.
- json_reformat_safe Function
The json_reformat_safe() function reformats a string of JSON data with line-breaks and optional indentation.
- json_sample_array Function
Enumerate top level properties in array entries and return name + count.
- json_sanitize Function
Convert javascript object data to strict JSON, useful when copying snippets from javascript.
- json_select Function
Generates a string containing a Javascript array with data from the specified columns of a JSON object.
- json_shred Function
Converts a complex JSON string representing an array of objects with nested arrays into individual arrays that do not have any nested arrays.
- json_sqlQuery Function
json_sqlQuery Function allows you to filter a JSON array using a simple SQL query syntax.
- json_standardize Function
JSON_standardize function takes a non-standard JSON string and standardizes it. It also corrects for trailing commas in the JSON (which are illegal). Returns the standardized JSON.
- json_to_bson Function
BSON was created by the developers of Mongo DB. BSON is JSON data that is converted to binary.
- json_to_crlf Function
Convert json to crlf data.
- json_to_xml Function
json_to_xml Function - Convert JSON to XML - Takes a string of JSON data and converts it to XML. json_to_xml Function - ATOM Format - The json_to_xml function can now generate XML using the "atom" format:
- json_to_yaml Function
Converts a JSON string to YAML.
- json_validate Function
Returns an empty string if the JSON is valid. Otherwise it returns an error message to tell you what is wrong with the JSON.
- property_from_json Function
The property_from_json() requires proper JSON, but is 2 to 5 times faster than json_parse()
- property_to_json Function
Takes a property, like a dot variable, and converts it to a JSON object.
- rsToJSON Function
Takes an AlphaDAO resultset and converts the data to a JSON object.
- varToJSON Function
Converts an Xbasic variable to a JSON representation.
- varToJSONHash Function
The varToJSONHash() Function converts an Xbasic property array to a JSON hash.
- varToJSONStandard Function
Converts an Xbasic variable to a JSON representation. If flagSpecialTags is .t. then you can use {function} and optional {functionArguments:var1,var2} in a property value to encode as a function. You can also use {Javascript} for arbitrary Javascript.
Other JSON Functions
- excel_to_json()
Takes an Excel file and returns a string of JSON data.