parsing results from a web service with dekiscript

[irabinovitch]

Hello,

I'm trying to pull data into a deki wiki from the sunlight api web service. The results of the webserive are returned in name value pairs using the following format:

{ "entity_id" : "fakeopenID438", "CRPcandID" : "N00009082", "URL" : "http://allard.senate.gov"}

ie

{"name1" : "value1", "name2" : "value2", "name3" : "value3"}

Is there any easy way to parse out the value of a specific named entry via dekiscript?

Thanks,
Ilan

[SteveB]

1.9.1 (out in ~10 days), you'll be able to do this:
string.deserialized(web.text("uri from where the date came from"))

Note: this only happens to work because DekiScript and JavaScript are close relatives!

[irabinovitch]

Awesome. I was looking at that function in the documetnation and hoping it would help.