From the course: Code Clinic: C++
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Format JSON request
- [Instructor] The body of the request that I sent to the Geolocation API needs to be formatted in JSON that looks something like this. With a field for whether or not to consider the IP address and then possibly a few wifiAccessPoints with the macAddress and signalStrength. The C++ standard library does not include any built-in JSON parsers. Rather than building my own from scratch, I looked at json.org where there's an extensive list of available libraries that provide JSON support in various languages. Of the ones written for C and C++, they all have their own advantages and disadvantages and I'd encourage you to play around with a few different ones. For this challenge, I chose Dave Gamble's cJSON library because it has a simple interface and was super easy to incorporate into my program. It only requires a single c file and the corresponding header file. My function to build the JSON request packet starts at line…
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