CPPRestSDK (casablanca) Extract JSON From Incoming WebSocket Messages (malformed token) - c++

Question

I'm connecting to a WebSocket whom always replies in JSON.
I see there is an extract_string method for websocket_incoming_message however after trying numerous things with json:value it seems as though you can only construct JSON arrays on-the-fly by inserting key-value pairs one-by-one.
Am I missing something here or is there a way to take the output from websocket_incoming_message and directly convert it into a json:value array?
wsClient.set_message_handler([=](websocket_incoming_message msg)
{
// handle message from server...
printf("[WebSocket INBOUND]: %s", msg.extract_string().get().c_str());
printJSON(json::value::parse(conversions::to_string_t(msg.extract_string().get())));
});
printJSON runs through the json::value and prints each key-value-pair.
Unhandled exception at 0x00007FF866923FB8 in RestAPI.exe: Microsoft
C++ exception: web::json::json_exception at memory location
0x0000003E553FDDC0. occurred
Console Output:
[WebSocket INBOUND]:
{"t":null,"s":null,"op":10,"d":{"heartbeat_interval":41250,"_trace":["gateway-prd-main-cr3x"]}}
Even though we can compile and run the application, I figure the exception is being caused due to the fact that were passing a string containing a JSON Table and not a single element? Does this mean I need to manually parse the string and pull out each key-value-pair while simultaneously building the json array?
There must be a way to do this, it seems like basic needed functionality..
A similar unresolved question
Any help here would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Try catching web::json::json_exception and print the message, it may give you a hint about what's wrong

Answer 2

I got the complete solution .please try to use boost pacakges from nuget. The documentation will help you to parse the json data from string. I think jsoncpp is not an updated packages available in the nuget.so please try boost packages available in the nuget.
MYJSON STRING
{"action":"refresh_dashboard","data":{"users_list":[{"user_id":"901e6076ff351cfc2195fb86f8438a26","extensions":["1002"],"name":"Karthik M"},{"user_id":"7d617ef5b2390d081d901b0d5cd108eb","extensions":["1015"],"name":"Synway User2"},{"user_id":"c8f667f7d663e81f6e7fa34b9296f067","extensions":["1012"],"name":"Rahib Video"},{"user_id":"cc3f94ecc14ee9c55670dcde9adc1887","extensions":["1006"],"name":"Rounak S Kiran"},{"user_id":"6c29ebdb34e1761fdf9423c573087979","extensions":["1003"],"name":"Amar Nath"},{"user_id":"8e15c2d95d4325cb07f0750846966be8","extensions":["1011"],"name":"TLS User"},{"user_id":"2fc4142bdacf83c1957bda0ad9d50e3d","extensions":["1014"],"name":"Synway User1"},{"user_id":"74d5b5a9aca1faa4c2f217ce87b621d8","extensions":["1008"],"name":"Robin Raju"},{"user_id":"a7ad7e73bf93ea83c8efdc1723cba198","extensions":["1007"],"name":"Arshad Arif"},{"user_id":"b55146df593ec8d09e5fe12a8a4c1108","extensions":["1001"],"name":"Rahib Rasheed"},{"user_id":"391391de005a8f5403c7b5591f462ea1","extensions":["1013"],"name":"Sangeeth J"},{"user_id":"3258f7ae4ae1db60435cbcf583f64a89","extensions":["1009"],"name":"Aby TL"},{"user_id":"90bc84e5e8a3427fe35e99bd4386de95","extensions":["1010"],"name":"Prince T"},{"user_id":"b501ef5b270a196afc0eed557ca74237","extensions":["1005"],"name":"Jineed AJ"},{"user_id":"1422af351e06adeab2de92f5a633a444","extensions":["1004"],"name":"Ashok PA"}],"busy_users":[],"reg_users":[{"user_id":"901e6076ff351cfc2195fb86f8438a26","status":"registered"},{"user_id":"6c29ebdb34e1761fdf9423c573087979","status":"registered"}],"contacts":[{"owner_id":"901e6076ff351cfc2195fb86f8438a26","status":"ready"},{"owner_id":"6c29ebdb34e1761fdf9423c573087979","status":"ready"}]}}
CODES
client.receive().then([](websocket_incoming_message msg) {
std::cout << "receiving data from socket";
// msg.message_type();
return msg.extract_string();
//1..i have one string
//cout<<"\n///////////test"<< msg.extract_string().get().c_str();
// // 2.convert to json array
//json::value::parse( ::to_string_t(msg.extract_string().get()))
//
}).then([](std::string body) {
//std::cout << "displaying the data";
std::cout << body << std::endl;
std::string ss = body;
ptree pt;
std::istringstream is(ss);
read_json(is, pt);
std::cout <<"\n 1st"<< "action: " << pt.get<std::string>("action") << "\n";
std::cout <<"\n 2nd"<< "data: " << pt.get<std::string>("data") << "\n";
std::cout << "--------------------------------------------------------------";
for (auto& e : pt.get_child("users_list")) {
std::cout << "\n" << "users list " << e.second.get<std::string>("user_id") << "\n";
}
});
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