Re: OData web services anyone?

Nathan,

Not the same...yet oData is REST...but not much fun to deal with without a
client library.

Charles




On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Has anyone implemented OData style web services on the IBM i?

Apparently,

OData is a flavor of REST.

Dean,

Your question about OData is the first time I've heard of it. But in
partial response to your question, yes we are delivering content to
browsers via a REST API as follows:

protocol://domain/path/controller/action?query-string-parameters...

For example:

https://example.com/path/maintain-GL-accounts/list-accounts?type="Asset";

Just to delineate the parts a bit more:

https://example.com is probably self-explanatory... the HTTPS protocol is
used. External DNS and internal gateways route requests for "example.com"
to our IBM i HTTP server.

/path/ is useful in the event that the content returned by our web services
to clients may include relative references to static content on our web
server.

/controller/ is a reference to an RPG-based web service.

/action/ provides a basis for the "controller" to route requests further to
specific client I/O handlers.

?query-string-parameters provide additional parameters for the client I/O
handler to satisfy the request.

Does that help?
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