Re: IWS, REST APIs, and Logging

[Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice tip!

Jay

> On Apr 27, 2021, at 12:25 PM, Nadir Amra <amra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> At this time logging payloads is not supported. Although there are plans 
> on implementing this. 
>
> You can do a trick where you have input parameter that is of character 
> type and not injected from any input source, with a length large enough to 
> handle input request, and best to make it varchar. 
>
> Then any REST requests that are inbound will be put into the parameter 
> as-is.  It will not be parsed.  Thus, it is up to you to do the parsing. 
>
>
> "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 04/27/2021 10:23:55 
> AM:
>
> > From: Stephen Piland <Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 04/27/2021 10:24 AM
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [WEB400] IWS, REST APIs, and Logging
> > Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I haven't seen any way to do this so far, but I thought I'd ask the 
> group...
> > Is there any way to capture the 'payload'/body sent in?  Ideally, 
> > pre-execution of the program or service program call from within 
> > IWS.  If not, is there a way to capture it in the called pgm perhaps
> > as a BLOB that could be stored?
> >
> > Thanks!
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