word_template_from_schema Function

Syntax

DIM result AS L = word_template_from_schema(C jsonSchema, C templateFilename)

Arguments

jsonSchemaCharacter: The JSON schema
templateFilenameCharacter: Filename of the Word merge template document to create.

Returns

resultLogical: Returns .t. or .f. indicating whether or not the template file was created.

Description

Creates a Word template from a JSON Schema.

Discussion

Similar to the word_template_from_sample_json() function, the word_template_from_schema() function creates a Microsoft Word template document from a JSON schema. The template Word document includes the necessary decorators for images and html fields.

Assume you have the following sample JSON data and you want to create a Word merge template documents.

{
    "name":"Belinda Monat",
    "image":"http://aadocuments.s3.amazonaws.com/headshots/AllisonBerman.png",
    "notes":"this is some <span style="color:red;">html</span> data"
    "children":[
        {"name":"Callie","image":"http://aadocuments.s3.amazonaws.com/headshots/NancyShmidt.png"},
        {"name":"Griffin","image":"http://aadocuments.s3.amazonaws.com/headshots/TonyJones.png"}
    ]
}

A schema can be inferred from the JSON data as shown below:

{
    "name":"string",
    "image":"imageg",
    "notes":"html",
    "children":[
        {"name":string","image":"image"}
    ]
}

The following Xbasic can be used to create a Word template from the schema:

dim JSONschema as C =<<%json%
{
    "name":"string",
    "image":"imageg",
    "notes":"html",
    "children":[
        {"name":string","image":"image"}
    ]
}
%json%
dim fnTemplate as c = "c:\data\wordTemplate1.docx"

dim flag as L
flag = word_template_from_schema(JSONschema,fnTemplate)