Dear Jasem.

I working on apps for my raspberry and meet some issue to parse the reply from the APIs.

Replies are provided between braket "[ ]" and my parsing (With libjson0) failed. From the www.json.org/ it looks not correct to have the [ ] at objet level. The first level is an objet and should be between curled "{ }" only at value level we could use bracket for array information.

If I modified, for exemple, the # Server status from :

@app.get('/api/server/status')
def get_server_status():
status = [ { 'status' : str(isServerRunning()) } ]
json_string = json.dumps(status)
return json_string

to:

@app.get('/api/server/status')
def get_server_status():
status = { 'status' : str(isServerRunning()) }
json_string = json.dumps(status)
return json_string

The parser works fine.

Do I misunderstand the explanation from the Internet site behind? or may I ask you to correct the APIs?

EDIT: But the js script doesn't like it! for me looks quite strange, but I don't understand the js code.

Regards
Philippe

I've continued to investigate around the rules on JSON and wasn't able to find clearly that if it is not allowed to have square brackets on top level of message. In the same way I didn't find real approvement of it
Anyway no need to have a lot of discussion around this issue as Indiwebmanager works fine today, could be better don't make changes and I'll wrote a short function to remove the first and last square bracket from the replies to solve my issue with libjson0 library, or use another library (available for RPI).

Any suggestion from the Indi's member?

For information with this library if I understand correctly the usage of it, after initialisation we've to call "struct json_object* json_tokener_parse(const char *str);" function. It seems that function is quite permissive except when the first char is [

Related to my low knowledge, it could be that I don't use it correctly

Regards, Philippe