Re: json return value

The first thing I'd do is to ensure your server script runs without problems, perhaps you don't have the JSON module installed, perl does not have JSON as part of it's core module set. Running the script from the command line will throw errors if a module is missing, apache will throw an error and your client won't be able to get a valid response. Various debugging techniques are covered in CGI Help Guide from CGI Programming.

Update: to install JSON from the command prompt:

cpan JSON
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Or speak to your systems administrator.

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Re^2: json return value by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 11, 2013 at 09:06 UTC
"perl does not have JSON as part of it's core module set" True, but recent versions of Perl do have JSON::PP, which provides an almost identical API. The OP could consider switching to that if he doesn't have JSON and doesn't want to install it. `package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name`	[reply]
Re^3: json return value by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2013 at 10:07 UTC
Apologies, You are correct. I was going by core modules listed on http://perldoc.perl.org, as I didn't have perl installed on the machine I was posting from at the time. Update: This seems to be a problem. I'll investigate further and report the issue with the documentation maintainers.	[reply]
Re^3: json return value by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2013 at 09:16 UTC
I don't see this listed as a core module as of 5.18, perhaps some distributions of Perl do have this as they tend to package non core modules and among other things. Update: fixed typo.	[reply]
Re^4: json return value (corelist) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2013 at 09:47 UTC
$ corelist -a JSON::PP Data for 2013-05-20 JSON::PP was first released with perl v5.13.9 v5.13.9 2.27103 v5.13.10 2.27103 v5.13.10 2.27103 v5.13.11 2.27105 v5.14.0 2.27105 v5.14.1 2.27105 v5.14.2 2.27105 v5.14.3 2.27105 v5.14.4 2.27105 v5.15.0 2.27200 v5.15.1 2.27200 v5.15.2 2.27200 v5.15.3 2.27200 v5.15.4 2.27200 v5.15.5 2.27200 v5.15.6 2.27200 v5.15.7 2.27200 v5.15.8 2.27200 v5.15.9 2.27200 v5.16.0 2.27200 v5.16.1 2.27200 v5.16.2 2.27200 v5.16.3 2.27200 v5.17.0 2.27200 v5.17.1 2.27200 v5.17.2 2.27200 v5.17.3 2.27200 v5.17.4 2.27200 v5.17.5 2.27200 v5.17.6 2.27200 v5.17.7 2.27200 v5.17.8 2.27200 v5.17.9 2.27200 v5.17.10 2.27202 v5.17.10 2.27202 v5.17.11 2.27202 v5.18.0 2.27202 v5.19.0 2.27202 [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: json return value (corelist) by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2013 at 09:53 UTC
Re^6: json return value (corelist) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2013 at 10:56 UTC
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Re^3: json return value by stenasc (Novice) on Jul 12, 2013 at 10:18 UTC
Hi, Thanks to all that replied. Just found out that the web hosts cannot install json as the website is on a shared server. However JSON::PP looks to be installed. I'm unsure of the changes that need to be made in the server and client code to ensure it works with JSON::PP. Any help greatly appreciated.	[reply]
Re^4: json return value by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 12, 2013 at 10:34 UTC
Replace: `use JSON;` [download] with `use JSON::PP;` [download] Then test your code. As of v2 JSON determines if JSON::XS is installed, and falls back to using JSON::PP if the XS version isn't available. Perhaps you have an old version of JSON installed. You could also use local::lib to install modules to a directory under your control, and load them from there.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: json return value by stenasc (Novice) on Jul 13, 2013 at 20:56 UTC
Re^6: json return value by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 15, 2013 at 08:18 UTC
Re^6: json return value by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2013 at 23:18 UTC
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