PI71979: DFHJUGEN IS BUILDING INVALID JSON BY ADDING ADDITIONAL COMMAS WHERE THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY.

APAR status

• Closed as duplicate of another APAR.

Error description

• The invalid JSON that DFHJUGEN builds looks like this:
  "Fields1": {
   "Fields2": false,
   "Field3": {
    "Field4": "0 1234",
   },
  },
  
  The extra commas after false and 01234 are invalid. This seems
  to be caused by the callers of match_template_variable being
  too presumptive in assuming that a comma is needed before
  ensuring there is definitely an object to follow.
  
  Additional Symptom(s) Search Keyword(s): KIXREVEPH
  

Local fix

• N/A
  

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR was raised to address the following problem:
  The DFHJS2LS assistant is run to create a WSBIND file for a web
  service, or JSBIND file for use with the DFHJSON linkable
  interface.  The JSON schema used as input contains optional
  fields.
  At runtime, the native (non-Java) JSON generator is used to
  create JSON from application data using the bind file created
  previously.  One or more optional fields are not present in the
  application data (indicated by the count field being zero).
  However, DFHPIJG incorrectly assumes it will be present in the
  generated data, so outputs a comma after the preceeding element,
  causing the JSON to be invalid.
  This APAR is being closed DUP, because the fix was included in
  PI67641.
  

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