Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am guessing the JSON feed carries enough info to know which record
format/DS to parse itself into (i.e. the table name)?  And then based on
that you use OS400 API's to learn the structure of a table and accordingly
occupy a pointer with fixed length data and pass that pointer to the
program?

Aaron Bartell
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > From: Aaron Bartell
> > [Aaron raises his hand] Tell us more please :-)
>
> Okay.  Last week I shared an example of an RPG program generating a JSON
> formatted output stream to populate a GRID widget.  See:
>
> http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/petitems.pdf
>
> The GRID source was based on the sample that you posted in your project,
> while the RPG source was my own.  We already discussed the streamlined
> nature of the jsoRecWrt() procedure to generate and output JSON formatted
> records for the GRID.
>
> But generating "output" streams is only half of the puzzle.  The other half
> is parsing, validating, and mapping JSON formatted "input" streams from GUI
> clients to internal RPG data structures.  I more recently completed that
> interface by implementing jsoRecGet(), which maps input streams to records
> with just one line of code.  And alternatively, jsoFldGet() to retrieve
> individual field values specifically by name.
>
> Actually, the service program exports 15 new procedures for working with
> JSON formatted I/O - according to the level of control needed.
>
> These procedures complement others in the framework which were
> traditionally used for interacting with traditional HTML clients.
>
> Nathan.
>
>
>
>
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