Re: namespace issue from IWS Wizard

Hi David,

On 3/20/2012 10:55 AM, David Baugh wrote:

When I run this in SOAPui, I notice that all the elements have a namespace prefix of 'ns:_' .
e.g. where my field name from my program is 'ID', the element is called 'ns:_ID'.

Yes, that's what IWS always does...

In my test RPG program to consume that service, I'm calling Scott's
HPPTAPI routine 'http_url_post' to send the input to a file in the
IFS, then using that as input to XML-INTO. I keep getting kicked out
of XML-INTO because it can't find a match in my RPG variable.

If you are on IBM i 6.1 or higher, there are PTFs available that provide a "case=convert" option for XML-INTO. With this option, RPG will translate any characters that aren't available in an RPG variable name into a valid RPG variable name. The same PTF provides an ns=remove option to strip the namespace (which is the 'ns:' part) if so desired.

You can learn more about this PTF, here:
http://tinyurl.com/rpg-xml-into-namespace

Alternately, instead of using XML-INTO, consider using either XML-SAX or the XML parser included with HTTPAPI. These won't have problems with this on any release.