#happy2022workday day-097

Happy 2022 day-097! Today’s Extend-sion…

Yesterday’s Q: Got JSON?
Today’s A: Yes, at least a good place to start…

One popular way to learn the basics of XML (and it’s technologies such as XSLT, web services and WSDL), can also be used to learn the basics of JSON. Our favorite beginner’s website for introductions to technologies is w3schools.

Why might you care about JSON? Yesterday’s #happy2022workday post showed the “format=json” hint on RaaS reports to help with integrations from Workday to systems that prefer JSON format (instead of csv, pipe, XML or other formats.)

Many Workday fans now have another reason to care about the JSON formatting of data…

Got Workday Extend?

Pic shows a Workday Extend Fundamentals “Basic Terminology” Reference definition of JSON. Thanks to our good friends at w3schools (dot com) there is no reason for Workday to spend time going into a definition of JSON.

The first w3schools JSON example even shows a list of employees (maybe they have noticed many visitors are coming from #Workday!) My yellow highlighting ‘[‘ and ‘]’ (square brackets) is to show an array of employees, and ‘,’ (commas) to separate items in the array.

Finally, I highlight that the data in JSON uses “name:value pairs”. This is shorter than the equivalent in XML which uses a tag at both the start and the end of the data.
XML: <firstName>Logan</firstName>
JSON: “firstName”:”Logan”

As we head into triple digit days, we have just enough time to fit an introduction to Workday Extend (WE).