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Firebase JSON Put and Patch

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Demonstrates how to apply Firebase put and patch events to a JSON database.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    String json1 = "{\"a\": 1, \"b\": 2}";

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();

    // Use Firebase delimiters for JSON paths.
    json.put_DelimiterChar("/");

    json.Load(json1);
    json.FirebasePut("/c","{\"foo\": true, \"bar\": false}");
    // Output should be: {"a":1,"b":2,"c":{"foo":true,"bar":false}}
    System.out.println("1) " + json.emit());

    json.FirebasePut("/c","\"hello world\"");
    // Output should be: {"a":1,"b":2,"c":"hello world"}
    System.out.println("2) " + json.emit());

    json.FirebasePut("/c","{\"foo\": \"abc\", \"bar\": 123}");
    // Output should be: {"a":1,"b":2,"c":{"foo":"abc","bar":123}}
    System.out.println("3) " + json.emit());

    // Back to the original..
    json.FirebasePut("/","{\"a\": 1, \"b\": 2}");
    System.out.println("4) " + json.emit());

    json.FirebasePut("/c","{\"foo\": true, \"bar\": false}");
    json.FirebasePatch("/c","{\"foo\": 3, \"baz\": 4}");
    // Output should be: {"a":1,"b":2,"c":{"foo":3,"bar":false,"baz":4}}
    System.out.println("5) " + json.emit());

    json.FirebasePatch("/c","{\"foo\": \"abc123\", \"baz\": {\"foo\": true, \"bar\": false}, \"bax\": {\"foo\": 200, \"bar\": 400} }");
    // Output should be: {"a":1,"b":2,"c":{"foo":"abc123","bar":false,"baz":{"foo":true,"bar":false},"bax":{"foo":200,"bar":400}}}
    System.out.println("6) " + json.emit());
  }
}