RE: CGI-RPG Parameters with different sizes

cgiParse is a server-standard API. You see in on the "other" platforms
as a way to automagically parse the URL-encoded input string. I've
actually cloned a lot of CGIPARSE in RPGIV just for grins.

QzhbCgiParse on the AS/400 is a bit complicated, but I've been using Mel
Rothman's CGIDEV2 which has a pretty good wrapper for CGIPARSE as the
other APIS. Although I prefer my own API wrappers except for the CGI
parse API, for which I prefer Mel's.
With cgiParse, you do end up effectively doing a "MOVE" to the field.
Sort of like the old routines in RPG--long lists of MOVE opcodes to copy
data. With this API, however, you end up with:

 C           EVAL    CustNo =  zhbGetVar('CUSTNO')
 C           EVAL    CustName =  zhbGetVar('CUSTNAME')

For each field in the HTML page.
At first I didn't like it, and firmly believed that QtmhCvtDB was the
best thing in the world. But the ease of using a wrapper API over
qzhbCGIParse is hard to pass up particularly with Mel's CGIDEV2
wrappers.

I will probably include my own wrappers in my book on "Web Applications
with RPG IV and CGI" (sorry Brad) but I might also just recommend Mel's.
Why do my own? Because I'm from the school were I believe you really
need to know how a piece of code operates to fully understand and take
advantage of it.

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
Visit the on-line  Midrange  Developer  forum at: http://www.rpgiv.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Joep Beckeringh
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:30 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: CGI-RPG Parameters with different sizes
>
> Peter,
>
> What do you mean by 'sending three parameters'?  If program A calls
program
> B, it can either pass three parameters (in which case program B will
have to
> have three separate parameters defined; not in a data structure) or
pass one
> parameter, containing the three fields.  If program B has the
parameters in
> a data structure, I suspect that you are passing the data structure.
In
> that case the data structure definitions in both programs have to
match, or
> you have a problem.
>
> Joep Beckeringh
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Peter_Vidal@pall.com>
> To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>; <rpgiv@yahoogroups.com>;
<rpgiv@egroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:04 PM
> Subject: CGI-RPG Parameters with different sizes
>
>
> > Hi group!
> >
> > I have a Program A that is sending three parameters to a Program B:
> >
> > Field 1 = 5 char long, value is '1'
> > Field 2 = 15 char long, value is '1364647'
> > Field 3 = 7 char long, value is M111110
> >
> > When I display my values on program B, I am only able to receive
them
> using a
> > data structure like this:
> >
> > DEnvData          DS
> > D   StartAtLoc                        Like(RQGDML)  (is 5 long)
> > D   StartAtItem                       Like(RQGDGR)  (is 15 long)
> > D   StartAtOrd                   7
> >
> > However, while debugging Program B, EnvData contains the following
value:
> > EVAL EnvData
> > STARTATLOC OF ENVDATA = '21307'
> > STARTATITEM OF ENVDATA = '459M111110     '
> > STARTATORD OF ENVDATA = '       '
> >
> > How I can determine the right positions of the data?  Is the data
> structure
> > poorly defined?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Peter Vidal
> > Pall Aeropower Corp.
> > Programmer Analyst
>
>
>
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