Re: Misunderstanding with JDBCR4

In fact I have already solved the problem.
A little googling around for "operational descriptor"....

I just had to modify my header file and add one row for JDBC_GetCol:

#pragma descriptor(void JDBC_GETCOL(void , void, ""))

With this RPG understood, that number of parameters is 3 and returned
me the correct value of nullInd.


Of course also added the same pragma to all other functions that deal
wit nullInd - just in case...

Thanks,

Jevgeni.


On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Ron Unknown <qgenesist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jevgeni,

I am not sure, it has been so long since I have messed with 400s, but is the pointer given an initial value before calling the program? something like:

Dcl Y-Ptr * init(*null) or based(*null)

not sure of the syntax any more, before it is called so that the sytem knows it is a pointer?


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Subject: [C400-L] Misunderstanding with JDBCR4

Hi, collegues
Having a challenge of accessing external database from my ILE/C
program, looked at Scott Klement JDBCR4.
As I do not write RPG, had to spend some time porting library header
from RPG to C. Not a big job.
Generally works fine.
However when I tried to see how JDBC_GetCol returns NullInd in case
field is empty, ran into a problem.

JDBC_GetCol is prototyped so:

VAR32767 JDBC_GETCOL(RESHANDLE *, int, char *) ;
VAR32767 and RESHANDLE are my defined types and they work fine.

I call this function in my program:

RESHANDLE rs ;
char NullInd ;
VAR32767 Field ;

Field = JDBC_GETCOL(&rs, 48, &NullInd) ;

It returns field value fine, however NullInd is always unchanged -
field is empty or not.
Run in debugger mode to see what Scott's program does.
His function looks so:

P JDBC_GetCol B export
D JDBC_GetCol PI 32767A varying
D rs like(ResultSet)
D col 10I 0 value
D nullInd 1N options(*nopass:*omit)
D result s 32767A varying
D str s like(jstring)
D null s 1N inz(*OFF)

/free

jdbc_begin_object_group(5);

monitor;
str = getColString(rs: col);
if (str = *NULL);
result = '';
null = *ON;
else;
result = r(str);
endif;
on-error;
null = *ON;
result = '';
endmon;
jdbc_end_object_group();
if (%parms >= 3 and %addr(nullInd)<>*NULL);
nullInd = Null;
endif;

return result;

/end-free

Sorry for the formatting...

What my debugging show is that Null variable has a proper value, but
is never assigned to nullInd.
I added NumParms variable and assigned value of %parms to it.
From that I saw that NumParms is -1, however all 3 parameters are passed.

Had a look at the manual for %parms.
It says the following:
"The value returned by %PARMS will be -1 if the system can determine
that the operational
descriptor was not passed, but in some cases when the system cannot detect this,
the value returned by %PARMS may be an incorrect value that is zero or greater."

Is there anything I can do about it?

Any advise will be highly appreciated...

Jevgeni.
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