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  1. I believe JKI JSON converts to Variants containing the basic JSON-matching types: String, Boolean, Number (DBL, I'm guessing). Then it also provides, if I remember, a special VI to convert that Variant into your cluster of actual specific data types. One of the reasons I don't like that is that it ties things to a monolithic LabVIEW type, the Cluster, that is not as flexible as JSON Object/Arrays. You show the same "LabVIEW tunnel vision" in your design of an array of "Group", "Name", "Value" clusters. That's a common way to handle the limits of LabVIEW. In JSON, the natural structure is this: { "Basic": { "config file":"c:\\test\\config.ini", "Operator:"Muller" }, "Extended": { "Room Temp":21.4, "Test No":0, "ping":null } } That isn't really doable with your LabVIEW Arrays and Clusters, even if I give you some extra Variant support. But you have tools to do stuff like this in JSONtext.
  2. I would encourage you to try the "subJSON" described in the conversation LogMAN linked to. Basically, replace your "Value" variant with a string labelled "<JSON>Value", and convert your values to JSON (at all the places where you now have "Set Data Name__ogtk.vi"). Then, wherever you are converting your variants to strict type, instead convert the subJSON to that type. The problem with using Variants and JSONtext is that the JSON doesn't contain the specific type information needed to recover the data in the Variant.
  3. I don't have the filtering syntax of JSONpath yet implemented in JSONtext. In fact, you surprised me by seeming to indicate that $..[?(@.folder=="User/Admin/UserA")] actually works, when it doesn't. At some point I may have teh time to implement that, but in the meantime consider filtering code in LabVIEW like this
  4. That's right. And make sure you test your code as it changes to/from Summer Time, as that is where once a year bugs can happen.
  5. I used to use Scan From String function, with %T codes: But I wouldn't say this was any stronger than your method. Now I use a reusable library for RFC3339 (subset of ISO-8601). This uses Scan From String mostly, but is robust against a variety of edge cases. Also handles things like the Local Time plus Offset format, which is nice in that it stores both Local Time and UTC time:
  6. There I was thinking about a simple fix to your immediate problem, rather than the much bigger change of switching to UTC. Using DST=-1 is to use true Local Time, which is what your Users will find most intuitive. But one time a year your times will jump back one hour, which is a rather problematic behaviour. You could use Local Time never corrected for Summer Time; easier for you but confusing to Users. Aside: I suffer the programmer disadvantage of living in the Western European Timezone, which is the same as UTC for half the year, making it hard to notice errors in my UTC-Local conversion. I often have my computer set to a far away Timezone when I'm debugging time-related things.
  7. But to answer you question, I would go with DST=-1. There will be one hour per year (Fall Back) where LabVIEW won't be able to know what the UTC time actually is (as there are two possibilities), but otherwise it would work. Note, though, that i never use that function that you are using.
  8. I also strongly recommend using UTC usually (with conversion to Local Time for display). And using an existing, hopefully well tested, library to convert to/from ISO-8601 (my own functions are in https://www.vipm.io/package/jdp_science_lib_common_utilities/, though they are intended just for the RFC3339 internet standard and may not be as complete as Francois').
  9. I remember CognoscentUI being quite impressive: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/CognoscentUI-XControl-LVOOP-Animation-Unicode-and-Image/ta-p/3495160
  10. JKSH has explained as well as I could the expected use. "Missing from Object" is determined when operating on the Object. I had a look, and it should be reasonably easy to give a different error for a string with only whitespace, but I'll need to understand use case for it better. I, personally, never find the need to write custom error-handling code. By the way, if one's use case is "set from this JSON as much as possible, or use supplied default for items where this is not possible", then one can just not use the error wires at all.
  11. I am actual about to commit to making the next release in LaVIEW 2019, rather than 2017, as VIMs were very new in 2017 and both buggy and of limited capability.
  12. Use case? Why do you need different custom error than the 402841: "Invalid JSON formatting" that you have now?
  13. Since Latin for six is "sex", we could have gone for "sexidecimal".
  14. So? Main.vi knows it might need disposing, as it did the creating, so do the cast.
  15. Note that System could have a method to remove the Transport ("uninject"?). Main.vi can remove the TCP and dispose of it, just before it disposes of System.
  16. The problem I have with the Network Streams QoS arguement is that TCP already does this, using ACKs and retries to ensure an ordered stream. And if I really needed to be sure a message is handled, I need to verify it all the way through the application to the final result, not just through the Network Stream message delivery. For example, if I need to send something to be saved to disk, I need QoS all the way to disk, and would have to implement a custom buffer on the send side, layered on top of Network Streams.
  17. I've never used Network Streams. It appears to me to be an API that makes TCP communication easier, for a specific use case of a one-way stream. But I've seen, on more than one occasion, people use it build APIs for entirely different use cases, ones that would (in the end) be simpler and more performant to base on straight TCP.
  18. I've done this kind of thing, with a 32-bit-only dll needed from a 64-bit one. Actually, it was two 64-bit Test Stations that both needed the same info from the 32-bit equipment, so having both be Clients of the 32-bit Server worked well. I used the TCP capability of Messenger Library, which is very little effort. One question: why Network Streams? If you are wrapping things in your own API then why not a standard TCP connection? What are Network Streams giving you?
  19. Your DB Browser and LabVIEW are possibly using different versions of sqlite. Can you run this in each to detect the version: select sqlite_version();
  20. Does anyone actually use Variants in clusters in this way? To me, this is not even a tertiary use case of JSONtext, so it would be helpful to hear from people with real-world uses. I am tempted to suggest throwing a "Variants not supported" error, but even that would add overhead which I am loath to do.
  21. Please try this fix: jdp_science_jsontext-1.6.6.106.vip
  22. Issue 92: https://bitbucket.org/drjdpowell/jsontext/issues/92/all-integer-types-needed-for-set-map
  23. Again, Variants are tricky, and have two names and serve two purposes. Viewed as a container of named data, your Variants are just placeholders, not actual data themselves (which is why I suggested in the last post to put a named Variant as Data inside the placeholder).
  24. Consider just not including those parameters. Rather than {"A":123,"B":null,"C":789} just have {"A":123,"C":789}; then "B" will be default. Alternately you could put named-Variant values inside your variants (which teh Variant-to-Data node will pass through: Variants are quite tricky, as they can serve both as a temporary container for a value, and a value itself.
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