[Info-vax] Restful API w/JSON client package or library on OpenVMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-03-20, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> Well, not sure how much you want to get into things.  But, if you're going to 
> implement something, why put some PC in the middle of things.  It's rather 
> simple to do from VMS.
>
> At the bottom of whatever is used is, wait for it, a socket.  Simple socket 
> communications.  Add SSL/TLS for encryption.
>
> I'm not looking at your requirements, but, I'd bet that HTTPS is used.  After 
> that, it's just what happens to the data.
>
> Isn't data manipulation what we do?
>

Why is everyone focused on the HTTP part of the problem only ?

You also need a decent JSON library that allows you to turn the incoming
JSON into a data structure that you can make queries to and iterate over
its components as required. The SAX-style parser model has long since
been left behind as an acceptable way to parse JSON/XML/etc...

Simon.

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