Re: New open source project: PCMLTOOLS

Hi David, interesting!

I can provide two things: an advice and some source code (it's an RPG not
Java).

About the advice, PCML it's basically Xml without steroids. Try to add to
the string the missing pieces and you get a useable Xml object:

Pcml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';

entry_off = rcvr.offset_First_Entry;
for i = 1 to rcvr.Number_Entries;
pEntry = pRcvr + entry_off;
entry_off = entry.Offset_Next_Entry;
pEntryData = pRcvr + entry.Offset_Interface_Info;
Pcml += %subst(EntryData:1:entry.Interface_Info_Length_Ret);
endfor;

About the source code (I understand you took Java's route) we have a
working extractor that takes care of all data definitions (that are NOT in
the interfaces) and replies to the caller with the exploded interface. If
you plan to port this project also to RPG I can strip down (and translate)
the code. As usual the problem with RPG is that it doesn't play well with
complex structures so the basic definitions to return to the caller are...
huge or complex.

Last hint, if you plan to use PCML and Service Programs you can vote this
RFE:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=135628


Since IBM accepted the RFE, we can hope for a better interface to call SRV
procedures without the 7 parm's limit.

HTH
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Il giorno gio 30 apr 2020 alle ore 21:46 David Gibbs via JAVA400-L <
java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Folks:

I've started a small open source project on github to implement something
I've
been wanting to do for quite a while.

Basically, it's a utility class that will retrieve the PCML from a *PGM or
*SRVPGM object who's modules were created using PGMINFO(*PCML:*MODULE).

Currently it can return a string containing the PCML source, a Document
object
based on the PCML, or a ProgramCallDocument object.

If there are multiple modules in a service program that contain PCML, it
merges
them all together.

It's hosted on github ... here's the URL:
https://github.com/fallingrock/pcmltools

I'm just getting the hang of github ... dealing with the functions is
taking
more time than I thought it would.

Testing has only been moderate so far ... but if you care to take a look,
I'd
value any input.

david

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