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Web services: calling a Web service technical principles

Learn the technical principles necessary to create VIs that can call Web services which return information in the form of JSON strings.

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Note: You may wish to begin with this overview of Web services.

Technical principles

Fundamental concepts

LabVIEW implementation of a Web service client

Study this video to learn about important LabVIEW VIs to call Web services; you may obtain the LabVIEW project files here:

https://youtu.be/xpVLENDliPI (5:07)

These VIs are described below; locate these elements with “Quick Drop” by pressing Ctrl + Space:

For more information

  1. JSON Basics: What You Need to Know (http://www.elated.com/articles/json-basics)
    Describes JSON syntax and how to form and parse JSON strings.
  2. The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159)
    Produced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), this document summarizes JSON syntax specifications and provides some examples.