I used to work a lot with desktop applications, so I was used to work with some xml configuration files and serialization, but since recently everything has changed for me I decided I’d give a try to the web stack.
So I’ll start from my very own experience and admit that I had no idea how JSON worked and what to do with it.
At my new job one of the requirement was to build a basic web api that consume data(JSON formatted of course) from another web service, cook it and serve it to the consumers of my web service. I was confused at my first approach.
Lets see a typical JSON response:
{
"responseData": {
"results": [
{
"GsearchResultClass": "GwebSearch",
"unescapedUrl": "http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton",
"url": "http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton",
"visibleUrl": "en.wikipedia.org",
"cacheUrl": "http: //www.google.com/search?q=cache:TwrPfhd22hYJ:en.wikipedia.org",
"title": "Paris Hilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia",
"titleNoFormatting": "Paris Hilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia",
"content": "[1] In 2006, she released her debut album..."
},
{
"GsearchResultClass": "GwebSearch",
"unescapedUrl": "http: //www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/",
"url": "http: //www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/",
"visibleUrl": "www.imdb.com",
"cacheUrl": "http: //www.google.com/search?q=cache:1i34KkqnsooJ:www.imdb.com",
"title": "Paris Hilton",
"titleNoFormatting": "Paris Hilton",
"content": "Self: Zoolander. Socialite Paris Hilton..."
}
],
"cursor": {
"pages": [
{
"start": "0",
"label": 1
},
{
"start": "4",
"label": 2
},
{
"start": "8",
"label": 3
},
{
"start": "12",
"label": 4
}
],
"estimatedResultCount": "59600000",
"currentPageIndex": 0,
"moreResultsUrl":
"http: //www.google.com/search?oe=utf8&ie=utf8..."
}
},
"responseDetails": null,
"responseStatus": 200
}
Wow! that’s quite a lot to take in for a novice like me.
It has a responseData node that has a results node that contains a list. Quiet a tree structure and believe me I could be much worse.
So at the following posts we will see step by step how I worked this out
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