Re: IWS, REST and retrieving variables from QUERY_STRING

Good question Marco, I second it.

That was going to be my first response, but it was based upon a very
high-level understanding of IWS. I've yet to actually use it.

A quick glance through the manual didn't seem to show query parms being
passed into a REST service...

Looking at Tim's video, and now back to the manual, I can see on page 74
were you can document the parm and specify an "Input Source" of *QUERY_PARM.

That would handle the direct ask
/web/server/claims?whid=93

The other option to consider is *MATRIX_PARM
/web/server/claims;whid=93

And since I had to look up the difference...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2048121/url-matrix-parameters-vs-query-parameters


Charles

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:09 AM Marco Facchinetti <
marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Robert, is there a specific reason not to use IWS builtin capacity to
deliver parsed parameters to the called RPG *PGM/*SRVPGM?

Just curious about other developers' use of IWS.

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Il giorno mar 28 lug 2020 alle ore 15:46 Robert Rogerson <
rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Hi All,

I'm creating a REST webservice/api and using IWS. I'm then using Postman
to test the webservice. All the endpoints call procedures in a service
program..

I have an endpoint /web/server/claims which will call the RPG procedure
GetAllClaims which returns all claims. I have tested this with Postman
and it works correctly.

My next step is to add a filter. So I call the same endpoint but this

time

I pass a parameter of whid. So the endpoint now becomes
/web/server/claims/?whid=93 which will call the RPG procedure

GetAllClaims

but this time I need to extract the parameter passed in the QUERY_STRING

to

return only claims for warehouse 93.

Can someone point me to either documentation or an example of how to
specify and extract from the QUERY_STRING. I've done a lot of searching

on

Google but I must not be searching on the correct terms because I can't
find anything on QUERY_STRING other than that you may specify it..

Thanks,

Rob
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