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Using JSON
==========
Modify JSON by Using Shell Commands
-----------------------------------
.. note::
Nowadays Web services are `JSON`-based, so making your script `JSON` aware is
probably a good choice. In order to be able to extract data from a `JSON`
document as well as composing `JSON` documents from a script, you can leverage
`jq <https://stedolan.github.io/jq/>`_.
Example #1
++++++++++
In this example our *Kapow!* service will receive a `JSON` value with an incorrect
date, then our ``pow`` file will fix it and return the correct value to the user.
.. code-block:: console
:linenos:
$ cat fix_date.pow
kapow route add -X POST /fix-date - <<-'EOF'
kapow set /response/headers/Content-Type application/json
kapow get /request/body | jq --arg newdate "$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')" '.incorrectDate=$newdate' | kapow set /response/body
EOF
Call the service with :program:`curl`:
.. code-block:: console
:linenos:
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/fix-date -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"incorrectDate": "no way, Jose"}'
{
"incorrectDate": "2019-11-22_10-42-06"
}
Example #2
++++++++++
In this example we extract the ``name`` field from the incoming `JSON` document in
order to generate a two-attribute `JSON` response.
.. code-block:: console
$ cat echo-attribute.pow
kapow route add -X POST /echo-attribute - <<-'EOF'
JSON_WHO=$(kapow get /request/body | jq -r .name)
kapow set /response/headers/Content-Type application/json
kapow set /response/status 200
jq --arg greet Hello --arg value "${JSON_WHO:-World}" --null-input '{ greet: $greet, to: $value }' | kapow set /response/body
EOF
Call the service with :program:`curl`:
.. code-block:: console
:linenos:
:emphasize-lines: 4
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/echo-attribute -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "MyName"}'
{
"greet": "Hello",
"to": "MyName"
}