how to build a json string?

[wbtcpip]

ciao GB Friends,

i have to post a json string to a remote server.

no problem when posting xml but i'm failing to post a json string.

an exemple of json string that i have to send is this:

{
"nowPlaying": [
{
"artist": "2+Small",
"duration": "00:02:55",
"id": "12854",
"status": "playing",
"time": "2023-12-07T15:17:27+00:00",
"title": "Feel+4+Me+(Radio+Mix)",
"type": "song"
}
]
}

Let me explain my code:

Dim myhttpget As Object
dim jsonstring as string
Set myhttpget = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
myhttpget.Open "POST", "https://server....", False
myhttpget.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
myhttpget.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "myapp"
myhttpget.Send jsonstring

in the jsonstring i load the text that i showed above

but the server always reply to me Error=400 - Bad Request

so maybe in json i do not have to send the string as it appears but data must be formatted in someway?

[(X)]

BING says the JSON data is at least formatted within the JSON guidelines.

It may be as you suggest, that the actual format the server expect is slightly different.

Can you post the XML file?

[wbtcpip]

i attach the instructions i received

playout_spec.pdf (320.84 KB)

[(X)]

Nothing wrong jumps out to me or BING :)

I was wondering who generates the ID though.

[wbtcpip]

it could be that the json string must be unicode? me i'm passing utf8

according to them the id is unique number to reference the song inside my library so it's not so important