SID-02118: More of a Variable Question, actually...

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.1	Perl version:	5.20.2
Category:	XmlRpcPlugin	Server OS:	Windows 7	Last update:	10 years ago

OK, so we're looking at TWiki as a quick front-end for distributed organizations to collaborate and interface with a lab environment. One of the key pieces we want to do is hit a completely-unrelated server to gather statistical information with some drill-down capabilities. I've been messing around with the XmlRpc plugin for a few days and had to hack it a bit to get it to work on Windows (Sys::SigAction not supported on Windows); as of now, I can call out to the service, handle all of the XmlRpc-compliant responses and assign the response to a variable which I can expand and display on the main page of my dev web. My question is: now what? I can't figure out how to parse the response! It seems to treat whatever comes back as a string. The really weird part: I tried the GetSetPlugin to try handling things if it receives a JSON string -- not only does that not work, the line of code seems to have disappeared whenever I edit the page to try something different.

-- Joe Bagodonuts - 2015-10-30

Discussion and Answer

If you get back a JSON object you likely want to parse it to make it presentable to the users. You can use the SetGetPlugin for that. Did you install the latest version of the plugin?

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-10-30

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-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-12-03

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