Re: WSDL2RPG or not?

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Charles

I've found that XMLTABLE isn't all that ugly - it's syntax looks a lot 
like CREATE TABLE in many ways.

As for calling a web service, Birgitta Hauser has nice examples of doing 
that in SQL, even with nesting in the XMLTABLE. In addition, a lot of 
this stuff can go into views, according to Birgitta.

Regards
Vern

On 7/21/2020 4:57 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:
> JSON_TABLE is only useful if the web service you're calling is returning
> JSON...
>
> Given that it's a SOAP webservice, it's returning XML.
>
> XMLTABLE might be an option for processing the returned data, but it'd
> likely be ugly. Not to mention trying to call a SOAP webservice with
> httpgetclob (or more likely httppostclob) would be very, very, ugly.
>
> Thus the use of tooling that understands Web Service Definition Language
> (WSDL) and makes a SOAP web service easier to call and process it's
> response.
>
> Charles
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:34 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Next question (remember, this is all new ground for me so the questions
> > are pretty low-level):
> >
> > Wouldn't one use json_table() today?
> >
> >   From working code:
> >
> > ****
> >
> > **exec sql select * into :wCity, :wCountry, :wID from
> > json_table(systools.httpgetclob(:URL, ''), 'lax $' columns( CITY
> > varchar(50) path '$.name', COUNTRY varchar(2) path '$.sys.country', ID
> > dec(10) path '$.id') empty on error); **
> >
> > ****
> >
> > On 7/21/2020 9:00 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
> > > That is what he was talking about Booth.
> > >
> > > Most think of IWS as the Server part.  WSDL2RPG is the client side.
> > >
> > > ...
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