Re: Reg: Suggestions Required for Web Services for IBMi

Hi Martin,

Initially we are planning to use only for consuming the data. In future
have a road map to publishing the data as well.

So In Error Scenario with IWS, if we are sending back the HTTP Response
code as 400 and some JSON Data (Some customized Error messages) as body in
response. IWS will trim the JSON Body and will not send the JSON Body
details to the Client which Nadir replied in the other email saying it will
be addressed in First Quarter of this year.

Regards,
Surender K

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:18 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not clear on the issue(s) involved. Is your web service consuming or
publishing data? Or both? In an error scenario, what is it you want to
have happen?

Anyway, here's my two cents: Take a look at SQL, too. I've used YAJL,
IWS, and SQL for web services and my own experiences leads me to
appreciate the great work Scott Klement did with YAJL but I came to
realize that for publishing a web service it is really hard to beat the
work of the folks that brought us the IWS wizard. Simple, fast, and in
my opinion, IWS handles errors quite robustly. And, for consuming a
web service, SQL is truly hard to beat.

The learning curves, for me, were painful but worth it.

On 1/24/2020 5:03 PM, Suren K wrote:

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

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards,
Surender K

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