Re: Reg: Suggestions Required for Web Services for IBMi

["Nadir Amra" <amra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From IWS perspective, for issue (1), this should be resolved in first 
quarter.  issue (2), we are looking into it. 


"WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/24/2020 05:03:56 
PM:

> From: Suren K <suren7437@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" 
<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 01/24/2020 05:04 PM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [WEB400] Reg: Suggestions Required for Web 
> Services for IBMi
> Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am planning to introduce Web Services for my IBMi application. I need
> some suggestion to choose which Web Services to go with.
>
> This web services which i am planning will be mainly focused for REST 
Based
> API Calls. Also i did a small POC in my application using Scott's YAJL 
tool
> using DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN for Parsing JSON Document into Data 
Structure
> and vice versa. So i am planning to use Scott's YAJL tool as well.
>
> Initially i thought of using IWS, but i could see the below two 
drawbacks
> with IWS
> 1) In Error Scenario the JSON body will not be sent back to Client
> 2) It Supports only 4 HTTP methods (GET, PUT, DELETE and POST) but as 
per
> my application requirement i need to use PATCH method as well.
> Do any one knows when IBM will fix the above two stuffs? If it is within 
3
> or 6 months then i am very happy to use IWS as Web Services.
>
> The other options in my mind are
> 1) With Apache HTTP Server and using CGI method, call the RPG Program
> 2) Node.js