DoneDone's API returns dates as strings that look like "/Date(1447595230347)/". Trying to figure out how and why it's in this format and how I can parse it in JS. Any ideas?
https://www.getdonedone.com/api/
I have a controller which accepts both html and json format data. I want to know how to accept the data of json format from the POST request from the browser's REST client. Null values are getting stored in the database. How to convert Json format data into string to store it in the database? I have used rabl gem to filter json contents. Ruby on Rails.
You might want to take a look at the serialize class method:
http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/serialize/class
This allows one to easily save the incoming JSON format and parse it to a Hash when retreiving it from the database.
I've made a twitter api request (GET trends/place API) and the result is just like this:
[{"trends":[{"name":"#BabyIsStaying","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23BabyIsStaying","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23BabyIsStaying","events":null},{"name":"#AkTakipBa\u015fl\u0131yor","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23AkTakipBa%C5%9Fl%C4%B1yor","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23AkTakipBa%C5%9Fl%C4%B1yor","events":null},{"name":"#\u00c7apulcuTakip","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23%C3%87apulcuTakip","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23%C3%87apulcuTakip","events":null},{"name":"#SadeceKar\u015f\u0131l\u0131kl\u0131Takiple\u015fme","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SadeceKar%C5%9F%C4%B1l%C4%B1kl%C4%B1Takiple%C5%9Fme","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23SadeceKar%C5%9F%C4%B1l%C4%B1kl%C4%B1Takiple%C5%9Fme","events":null},{"name":"#soysuzek\u015fis\u00f6zl\u00fck","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23soysuzek%C5%9Fis%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk","promoted_content":null,"query":"%23soysuzek%C5%9Fis%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk","events":null},{"name":"B\u00fcy\u00fck FENERBAH\u00c7E Taraftarlar\u0131Takiple\u015fiyor","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk+FENERBAH%C3%87E+Taraftarlar%C4%B1Takiple%C5%9Fiyor%22","promoted_content":null,"query":"%22B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk+FENERBAH%C3%87E+Taraftarlar%C4%B1Takiple%C5%9Fiyor%22","events":null},{"name":"Sar\u0131K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131Aile UnfollowsuzTakiple\u015fiyor","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22Sar%C4%B1K%C4%B1rm%C4%B1z%C4%B1Aile+UnfollowsuzTakiple%C5%9Fiyor%22","promoted_content":null,"query":"%22Sar%C4%B1K%C4%B1rm%C4%B1z%C4%B1Aile+UnfollowsuzTakiple%C5%9Fiyor%22","events":null},{"name":"D\u00fcnyadaTeksinSen GALATASARAY\u0131m","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22D%C3%BCnyadaTeksinSen+GALATASARAY%C4%B1m%22","promoted_content":null,"query":"%22D%C3%BCnyadaTeksinSen+GALATASARAY%C4%B1m%22","events":null},{"name":"D\u00fcnyan\u0131n TekHarikas\u0131s\u0131n FENERBAH\u00c7EM","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22D%C3%BCnyan%C4%B1n+TekHarikas%C4%B1s%C4%B1n+FENERBAH%C3%87EM%22","promoted_content":null,"query":"%22D%C3%BCnyan%C4%B1n+TekHarikas%C4%B1s%C4%B1n+FENERBAH%C3%87EM%22","events":null},{"name":"MustafaKemalin\u0130zindeyiz \u00c7\u00fcnk\u00fcFenerbah\u00e7eliyiz","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22MustafaKemalin%C4%B0zindeyiz+%C3%87%C3%BCnk%C3%BCFenerbah%C3%A7eliyiz%22","promoted_content":null,"query":"%22MustafaKemalin%C4%B0zindeyiz+%C3%87%C3%BCnk%C3%BCFenerbah%C3%A7eliyiz%22","events":null}],"as_of":"2013-07-20T10:51:45Z","created_at":"2013-07-20T10:45:24Z","locations":[{"name":"Turkey","woeid":23424969}]}]
My question is how to turn this array string into html. No proper php experience at all.
The response you are getting is JSON.
You used to be able to get response in XML, RSS and more, but now the only response type you will receive is JSON.
PHP has multiple methods for dealing with JSON. To encode data, you would use json_encode(). However, you want to decode it, so you want to be doing the following:
var_dump(json_decode($yourData));
This will dump the data to the browser so you can see what you have to work with.
You can iterate around this data using a foreach() loop.
Remember, assuming you json_decode() your results into $yourData:
To access array properties, use: $yourData['propertyName']
To access object properties, use: $yourData->propertyName
you can feed that into json_decode() function
you will get an array that you can manage as you want.
Hey i am trying to parse Bing News API Search results, using Regex but finding it real hard. Can any one tell how to extract - 1. Snippet, 2. URL and 3. Name from all the results(10 is the default number) that are returned in one response ?
This is the response that i am receiving from Bing for a query.(there are 5 results returned in this)
http://ideone.com/yd8yl
You don't need to use a regular expression for parsing the Bing response. The response is in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format, and depending on your programming environment, you may use an appropriate library to parse it. Please check http://www.json.org/ if you are not familiar with what JSON is.
I'm POSTing json data to a Grails controller which I then parse using JSON.parse.
It all works fine except for date fields. I don't believe there is an explicit syntax in json to represent a Date but I've tried a number of formats with no luck. Can anyone tell me what format I should use so that the grails JSON parser can create a Date object.
There isn't a specific format, but you can define your own. For example, these guys here are adding a '#' to the beginning and the end of the string.
According to Grails docs here, you can define:
grails.converters.json.date (String) - Configure how Date values
are serialized to JSON
"default" - String representation according to the JSON specification
"javascript" - new Date(...)
Update: It appears that there is no mapping to Java Date objects. If you know the fields that are dates, you can parse them into Dates