Even in the global masters rewards where they have an RPi available with IRIS preinstalled, it's running on Ubuntu, not Raspbian, so that part didn't surprise me.

As python becomes more widely adopted in IRIS and word gets out about it, I won't be surprised if some of the RPi community shows up with some pretty cool projects using IRIS Community since a lot of them are python developers. InterSystems tends to lean into health care as the main thing, but there you've got a device that you can connect all kinds of sensors and gizmos to that may lend themselves well to other fields. Let's not be hasty dismissing it because it can't run an entire hospital.

Are you just trying to get the json contained in a character stream into a string a vice versa? If so, just read and write to and from the stream:

set json = ""
while 'stream.AtEnd
{
    set json = json_stream.Read()
}

That should get you the contents of the stream into a string.

do stream.Write(json)

That should write the json to a stream.

Or is that not what you're trying to do?

Methods that return a %Status don't automatically throw an exception. You have to check if the %Status is an error and throw it yourself. After your SendFormDataURL call, you might want to add the following and see if that gives you any more information:

if $$$ISERR(st) {
  throw ##class(%Exception.StatusException).CreateFromStatus(st)
}

However given that the HTTP status of the response is a 500 (an internal server error) there may also be a problem on that end.

Here is some useful documentation.

You're going to want to make a class that extends %CSP.REST and set up an application that uses that class as its dispatch class. You'll have a URL map in that class to tell IRIS or Cache what to do with the request. Depending on your specific application, you might also want to get familiar with using %request and %response in that process.