Zig Requires Chilkat v11.1.0+

POST JSON to REST API with non-us-ascii Chars Escaped

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Demonstrates how to POST to a REST API with non-usascii chars within JSON Unicode escaped. Zig

const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    const rest = try chilkat.Rest.init();
    defer rest.deinit();

    // Connect using TLS.
    const b_auto_reconnect = true;
    try rest.connect("chilkatsoft.com", 443, true, b_auto_reconnect);

    // Load JSON containing the following Korean text.

    //  {
    //    "BillAddr": {
    //       "Id": "239615",
    //       "Line1": "류리하",
    //       "Line2": "류리하류리하",
    //       "City": "류리하류리하",
    //       "Country": "US",
    //       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
    //       "PostalCode": "류리하"
    //     }
    // }

    const json = try chilkat.JsonObject.init();
    defer json.deinit();
    json.setEmitCompact(false);
    json.loadFile("qa_data/json/korean.json") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try json.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    try rest.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8");

    const sb = try chilkat.StringBuilder.init();
    defer sb.deinit();
    json.emitSb(sb) catch {};
    sb.encode("unicodeescape", "utf-8") catch {};

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try sb.getAsString(alloc)});

    // The StringBuilder contains this:

    // {
    //   "BillAddr": {
    //     "Id": "239615",
    //     "Line1": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
    //     "Line2": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
    //     "City": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
    //     "Country": "US",
    //     "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
    //     "PostalCode": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558"
    //   }
    // }

    const sb_resp = try chilkat.StringBuilder.init();
    defer sb_resp.deinit();
    rest.fullRequestSb("POST", "/echo_request_body.asp", sb, sb_resp) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Show the response.
    std.debug.print("Json Response: {s}\n", .{try sb_resp.getAsString(alloc)});
}