Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to use the API for my online brokerage (OptionsHouse) and have gotten nowhere in the last 5 hours.
The API documentation says:
The OptionsHouse API is available through api.optionshouse.com. All requests must be sent
directly to api.optionshouse.com/j or api.optionshouse.com/m (specified below) via https
connections for security reasons. Requests should be POST requests with text/xml as content-
type...An API service has an expected JSON structure provided as input and will return a well-formed JSON structure as a result.

Here is their example json message for log-in:
{
"message":{
"action":"auth.login",
"data":{
"userName":"user1",
"password":"password",
}}

So far I've these forum threads and sites most helpful:
http://forum.processing.org/topic/http-post-processing
http://json.org/JSONRequest.html
http://data.oreilly.com/~aodewahn/processing_json/process_json.txt
http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/processing-json-the-new-york-times (I wish the optionshouse api was this simple)

But I'm still very far from pulling things together.  I am practicing using the Flickr API because I don't want to risk losing access to the optionshouse api due to mistakes in programming.  If anyone knows a simple way of sending json format POST to https I'd greatly appreciate your help.  Processing is really the only language I'm familiar with so all the Ajax jQuery and javascript stuff has me pounding my head against the wall.

Thanks,
Mike

I get this error all the time when trying to make a class, even when I copy code from a program that is working fine. A few posts mention declaring within setup, but no luck so far.  Thanks for any help

MyButton button1, button2, button3;

void setup(){
  size(800,800);


  String image1, image2, image3;
  image1 = "imageBase.JPG";
  image2 = "imageHover.JPG";
  image3 = "imageClick.JPG";
 
  button1 = new MyButton(image1,image2,image3,100,100,100,100);
  button2 = new MyButton(image1,image2,image3,200,200,200,200);
  button3 = new MyButton(image1,image2,image3,400,400,300,300);
}

void draw(){
  button1.update();
  button2.update();
  button3.update();
  if (button1.getter_hovered()){
    println("Button 1 is hovered over.");
  }
  if (button1.getter_clicked()){
    println("Button 1 is clicked.");
  }
}

class MyButton{

  private String _pathBase, _pathHover,  _pathClick;
  private PImage imageBase, imageHover, imageClick, imageCurrent;
  private int locX, locY, sizeX, sizeY;
  private boolean clicked = false, hovered = false;

  //constructor
  MyButton(String _pathBase, String _pathHover, String _pathClick, int _locX, int _locY, int _sizeX, int _sizeY){

    imageBase = loadImage(_pathBase);
    imageHover = loadImage(_pathHover);
    imageClick = loadImage(_pathClick);
    locX = _locX;
    locY = _locY;
    sizeX = _sizeX;
    sizeY = _sizeY;

    //resize the images
    imageBase.resize(sizeX, sizeY);
    imageHover.resize(sizeX, sizeY);
    imageClick.resize(sizeX, sizeY);

    //assign the base image as the current image
    imageCurrent = imageBase;

  }

  void update(){
    //check where the mouse is
    //is it over my button?
    if (!mousePressed && mouseX>=locX && mouseX<=locX+sizeX && mouseY>=locY && mouseY<=locY+sizeY){
      //set the hover image as the current image
      imageCurrent = imageHover;
      hovered = true;
      clicked = false;
    }
    //is it clicking my button?
    else if (mousePressed && mouseX>=locX && mouseX<=locX+sizeX && mouseY>=locY && mouseY<=locY+sizeY){
      //set the clicked image to the current Image
      imageCurrent = imageClick;
      clicked = true;
      hovered = false;
    }
    else{
      imageCurrent = imageBase;
      clicked = false;
      hovered = false;
    }
    //update the onscreen image
    image(imageCurrent,locX,locY);
  }

  boolean getter_clicked(){
    return clicked;
  }

  boolean getter_hovered(){
    return hovered;
  }

} //end class