Get JSON object from URL

For this to work, file_get_contents requires that allow_url_fopen is enabled. This can be done at runtime by including: You can also use curl to get the url. To use curl, you can use the example found here:

JSON and escaping characters

This is not a bug in either implementation. There is no requirement to escape U+00B0. To quote the RFC: 2.5. Strings The representation of strings is similar to conventions used in the C family of programming languages. A string begins and ends with quotation marks. All Unicode characters may be placed within the quotation marks … Read more

C++ JSON Serialization

For that you need reflection in C/C++, which doesn’t exist. You need to have some meta data describing the structure of your classes (members, inherited base classes). For the moment C/C++ compilers don’t automatically provide that information in built binaries. I had the same idea in mind, and I used GCC XML project to get … Read more

How to get POSTed JSON in Flask?

First of all, the .json attribute is a property that delegates to the request.get_json() method, which documents why you see None here. You need to set the request content type to application/json for the .json property and .get_json() method (with no arguments) to work as either will produce None otherwise. See the Flask Request documentation: … Read more