Failure of JSON parsing in Arduino and ESP8266

Question

I need to read JSON data from here and then I have to parse it. I have to extract an Ajax response from this REST API but I'm kinda stuck here. Kindly help me out.

So, I've given my code below. Do have a look at it and tell me how can i read a JSON response for the url. Also, How can I parse it in a string?

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#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiClient.h>
#include <ArduinoJson.h>

const char* ssid = "ssid";
const char* password = "password";

const char* host = "tutor4study.com";
const int httpsPort = 80;
 WiFiClient client;
 WiFiClient readClient;
 String sensorValue1 = "5555";
 String sensorValue2 = "9999";
 String readUrl = "";
 char readLine;
 String readResponse ="";
 String readJsonResponse ="";



void setup() {
               Serial.begin(115200);
               Serial.println();
               Serial.print("connecting to ");
               Serial.println(ssid);
               WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
               while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
                                                        delay(500);
                                                        Serial.print(".");
                                                      }
               Serial.println("");
               Serial.println("WiFi connected");
               Serial.println("IP address: ");
               Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
               Serial.print("connecting to ");

                pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
                pinMode(5, OUTPUT);
               // yield();

            }

StaticJsonBuffer<200> jsonBuffer;



void readConnect(){
                   if(!readClient.connect(host,httpsPort)){
                                                            Serial.println("connection failed for readCLient");
                                                            ESP.reset();
                                                            return;
                    }
                   readUrl = "/forms/ajaxDeviceValue";
                    Serial.print("requesting URL: ");
                    Serial.println(readUrl);
                    readClient.print(String("GET ")+readUrl+" HTTP/1.1\r\n"+
                    "Host: "+host+"\r\n"+
                    "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
                    while(readClient.connected()){
                                                  readLine = readClient.read();
                                                  Serial.print(readLine);
                                                  readResponse += readLine;                 
                      }

                      JsonObject& root = jsonBuffer.parseObject(readResponse);

    if (!root.success()) {
    Serial.println("parseObject() failed");
    return;
    }

  }

void loop() {
              readConnect();

            }

Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm assuming it's because of the garbage value, that ArduinoJson library was not able to parse it. 

After a lot of failed efforts, I finally  tried using the HttpClient to read the response.It returned the clear Json which ArduinoJson is able to parse and now the code is working just fine.  

Comments

can you put your coding here?