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PHP Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Load JSON Object from HTTP Response Body

Demonstrates how to load the HTTP response body directly into a JSON object.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Http;
use Chilkat2\HttpResponse;
use Chilkat2\JsonObject;

$http = new Http();

$resp = new HttpResponse();
try {
    $http->HttpStr('GET', 'https://www.chilkatsoft.com/exampledata/sample.json', '', '', '', $resp);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// A JSON object is JSON that begins with "{" and ends with "}"
$json = new JsonObject();

// If we wish to transfer (instead of copy) the JSON from the HttpResponse to the JsonObject, then add the keyword "TakeResponseBody" to UncommonOptions
// This could save memory for extremely large JSON responses.
$resp->UncommonOptions = 'TakeResponseBody';

$resp->GetBodyJson($json);

$json->EmitCompact = false;
echo $json->Emit(), "\n";

// Note: If UncommonOptions contained "TakeResponseBody", then the response BodyStr will now be empty:
echo "----\n";
echo $resp->BodyStr, "\n";