Question

I have trouble parsing a json object with perl and I don’t know if the issue is coming from the json or my script. Here is the json:

test.json

{
   "count":3,
   "entries": 
   [
      {
         "id":85,
         "application":AuditExampleLogin1,
         "user":admin,
         "time":"2011-11-22T10:29:37.422Z",
         "values":
null
      },
      {
         "id":87,
         "application":AuditExampleLogin1,
         "user":admin,
         "time":"2011-11-22T10:30:56.235Z",
         "values":
null
      },
      {
         "id":89,
         "application":AuditExampleLogin1,
         "user":admin,
         "time":"2011-11-22T10:33:15.000Z",
         "values":
null
      }
   ]
}

Here the script:
script.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use JSON;
open FILE, 'test.json' or die "Could not open file inputfile: $!";
sysread(FILE, my $result, -s FILE);
close FILE or die "Could not close file: $!"; 
my @json = @{decode_json($result)};

And finally the error I’m getting:
error

malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom,
at character offset 86 (before "AuditExampleLogin1,\n...") at     
./script.pl line 7.

Q: Can someone tell me whether the issue is coming from the json or my script and what to change in either case?

FYI the json is coming from Alfresco auditing api.

Answer 1

It works if the Audit… and admin values are quoted. The line

my @json = @{decode_json($result)};

needs to be just

my @json = decode_json($result);