Consume JSON rest web services

Question

Hi experts,
     I have a requirement to Consume rest web services from a URL, which is in JSON format. Help me out to make it.
Thanks
~Faseeh

Answer 1

Hi Faseeh,
As Anthony has mentioned earlier, you need to specify the accept header as application/json. The Business Intelligence platform RESTful web service SDK also supports providing responses in JSON format. Please refer to the document links which Ludek has pointed out. There are 2 formats which are supported - XML (BIP SDK follows ATOM specification) and JSON.
For eg. for a particular request, below are the responses in 2 formats:
XML format:
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title type="text">5432</title>
<id>tag:sap.com,2010:bip-rs/AfRWaT5_131NlLLf5bRMLKY/relationships/receivedAlerts/5432</id>
<author>
<name>Administrator</name>
<uri>http://commandcom-lcm:6405/biprws/infostore/12</uri>
</author>
<link href="http://commandcom-lcm:6405/biprws/infostore/5432" rel="related"></link>
<content type="application/xml">
<attrs xmlns="http://www.sap.com/rws/bip">
<attr name="id" type="int32">5432</attr>
<attr name="markedAsRead" type="bool">false</attr>
</attrs>
</content>
</entry>
JSON format:
"related":
"__deferred":
{"uri":"http://commandcom-lcm:6405/biprws/infostore/5432"}
"id":5432,
"markedAsRead":false
Hope this clarifies.
Regards
Sumitesh