Thanks for your observations. A new snapshot is available, containing the fix for the copy expression [1]; an updated version for inspect:type will follow soon (this bug is only due to the generatation of the output for the InfoView panel).

With regard to your third question: In a previous 11.x version of BaseX, the behavior of http:send-request was changed, making th explicite json:serialize call obsolete (it should have been better documented).

Here’s one way to send XML JSON representations to the server with the current version:

(: Query :)

http:send-request(

  <http:request method='post'><http:body media-type='application/json'/></http:request>,

  'http://localhost...',

  <json>a</json>

)

(: RESTXQ endpoint :)

declare %rest:path('test') %rest:POST('{$x}') function local:f($x) { };

Best,

Christian

[1] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/

Hello, it's me again.

I can't actually find a way to transport a JSON as a request body except with a map, which obviously always has a json representation as well.

My current workaround for my code base is to convert the serialized form back into a map using xquery:eval.


let $requestBody := element { 'json' } {
    attribute { 'type' } { 'object' },
    element { 'the' } {
      attribute { 'type' } { 'object' },
      element { 'shit' } {
        attribute { 'type' } { 'object' },
        element { 'is' } {
          attribute { 'type' } { 'array' },
          element { '_' } {
            attribute { 'type' } { 'object' },
            element { 'on' } {
              attribute { 'type' } { 'object' },
              element { 'the' } {
                "steam"
              }
            }
          },
          element { '_' } {
            attribute { 'type' } { 'object' },
            element { 'what' } {
              attribute { 'type' } { 'object' },
              element { 'the' } {
                "f..."
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
  return $requestBody => json:serialize() => xquery:eval()