I have gotten this to work using SQLCLI and YAJL.
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From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Tim Rowe
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2022 2:51 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Creating a REST API with RPGLE
Greetings.
If you are passing in an SQL Statement… instead of pass that into an RPG program, you can instead directly create a REST API over the SQL statement, and the IWS engine will handle the packaging of the data in to JSON for you.
You can see a video recording of this process here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-hp0_a6ka8
Might be an alternative .
Tim
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On Oct 7, 2022, at 8:09 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
First, let me say I am trying to do something here that I have zilch experience with from the IBM i perspective. I have done this type of stuff using C#.Net on Windows but nothing on the IBM i. Yesterday was my first voyage into IBM Web Administration for i.
That said, I am trying to create a REST API written in RPGLE that will return JSON data. I have looked at a lot of examples but just can't find what I am after.
This needs to be modeled after some existing C#.Net REST APIs so the following requirements are not negotiable.
The request needs to be a POST type.
The body of the POST request needs to have two "fields".
1) Input - An SQL statement that will be used to retrieve the data.
2) Output - The results of the SQL. These results can be anything so the fields can't be predefined in the RPGLE program's parameters like they are in all of the examples that I find. There can also be multiple records so it would end up having an array in the results. I think I need a single "results" field that is pretty big and I will need to manually build the JSON for it.
I tried creating a new HTTP server and deploying a service to it. I have been successful using Scott's customer lookup as a model and I have been able to do a few different things to experiment. However, I can't figure out how to handle the POST body for input or the array results in the output.
One attempt was to create the following:
dcl-pi *n;
sql char(5000);
resultSet char(50000);
end-pi;
The problem was that I got back a value in the resultSet that was really junked up JSON because it escaped all of the " as \". I considered trying to make the resultSet value return as plain text instead of JSON (I'm assuming I can do that somehow) but I decided before I went too far down the wrong rabbit hole, I would ask for help.
Can someone help point me in a good direction? I don't mind doing a lot of web digging, I just don't really know what I need to search for to do the digging.
Thanks.
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