Write out page as JSON

Currently I'm using TeamSite 7.2.1, and I want to write out a file that is currently published as XML as JSON instead.

What is the best practice for doing this, use a Java post-controller? (I can't seem to find the document when writing Java code for this)

Thanks, and if there is better documentatoin on writing externals than the Developer Guide, please let me know.

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David Smith

Your post is lacking any kind of detail as far as what mechanism you're currently using to write out XML, and during what process you are needing to do this. XSLT may be the best bet - it's easy to transform source into JSON vs. XML using XSLT. But without knowing the context of what you're doing, who knows?

Adam Stoller

In addition to what Smitty already pointed out - I hope you realize that 7.2.1 is, at this point, very old and no longer supported. You should seriously consider getting your products upgraded.

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Rick Poulin

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Whayle

Thanks for replying. Let me put it this way; What is the preferred way for me to create a page in TeamSite,...publish it,...and see JSON as a result?

I think I'm hearing "just use XSLT"....but often a little Java seems a better option which is why I'm asking this question.

And yes, I know, it's an old version of teamsite, I wish I had the authority to upgrade. I'm hoping soon to see us leapfrogging to the latest release.

Rick Poulin

We can't answer your question without knowing more about your implementation.

What are you using as your runtime environment? Do you want to "bake" a JSON file in workflow on the authoring side and then push that out? Or are you generating your JSON on the fly at runtime? Is LiveSite part of your stack?

Whayle

Thanks. I'm looking into creating a JSON producing page type layout.

I'm using TeamSite to publish a static file served up by HTTP, so nothing interesting going on with runtimes, and no interesting workflows.

Rick Poulin

Ok. If this is a one-off use case, I'd suggest just generating the file in workflow rather than building a whole page type for this.

If you're going to be creating a new page type, the process is not that much different than what you would have done for XML. You'll be adding an entry in pagetype-config.xml that points to a top-level stylesheet that doesn't do a whole lot. Your component should then have XSL that spits out JSON instead of XML.

Note that a post controller doesn't help you at all in this case, since those can't alter the page response stream.