Bill;
In the IBM infocenter look up CEEHDLR - Register a user written condition handler.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp
A user condition handler is very similar to the Monitor/On-error, and somewhat similar to the MONMSG. UCHs are much more involved to implement, but you can do a lot more with an exception using a UCH that either of the others.
I've written my code with some defensive error checking where it makes sense, but I don't check to see if a numeric sub-field parm is numeric, the WSDL should have done that. The UCH will catch any un-expected errors, decimal data, for example, and will set the response sub-field parms with error descriptions that will help me to find the problem.
Duane Christen
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Subject: RE: Web Services -- need suggestions on how to
handledatastructuresfor programs to be used as Web Services
Thanks again Duane!
Can you point me to documentation explaining "a user condition handler?"
I am not familiar with the term. I am familiar with the use of *PSSR
and Monitor within the RPGLE program.
Does "a user condition handler" serve the same purpose as wrapping a
MONMSG after a CALL in CL to a program?
I am trying to get a feel of how much defensive code and error handling
needs to be part of a program which is to be exposed as a web service.
Best regards and thanks,
Bill Blalock
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Bill,
I use a user condition handler, which caught the un-handled exception
and reported back to the web service through the noteResponse structure.
Monitor and *PSSR are also viable, depending on what you need to return
to the caller and what works best for you. The joblog message wasn't
helpful and when I would try to catch the program in WDSC-Debug (Service
Entry Points) the debug would fail unexpectedly.
I had the tester send me the XML he was using to test and noticed that
he had 3 characters set for a 1 character field. After I fixed the XML
it worked fine. I then set the prefrences on the WSDL and sent it back
to the tester.
If I wern't confortable with user condition handlers, I would use the
Monitor, something like:
Monitor;
// validate input structure
// web service logic
On-Error;
// set return structure values for an unexpected error
// include the job (number/user/name)
End-Mon;
Some othere tools you might find helpful:
The WDSC Service Entry Points are great for debuging web services.
WDSC Job Filter pools work great for finding the jobs that are running
your web service. Use QUSER for the Job User and the profile you
supplied to the web service wizard when you created it.
Use the NETSTAT menu option 3 "Work with TCP/IP Connection Status"
F13-local port and F14 to look for the webservice port number to find
the listener
Duane Christen
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Thank you Daune!
Part way there...
What happened when the program blew up? Did the error bubble up and
generate some response to the web service requestor? Did the program
hang up in an obscure job and subsystem waiting for a response?
I ask because I was wondering how to handle exceptions in RPG programs /
service programs exposed as web services. Some of our programs assume
the best case and leave it to the operator to sort out errors -- or to
automatic responses and MONMSG is the calling CL.
Again, thanks
Bill Blalock
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Bill,
I don't know if you have gotten an answer on this or not but here goes.
It's not that clever, it does expose the structure(s) as you would
expect but it does not put limits on the length of the character/string
fields. I discovered this the hard way.
The tester didn't know any better (sometimes a good thing) so they were
putting values larger than were defined and the service was not working
correctly.
To fix it you have to edit the WSDL and change the properties
appropriately for each sub-field in the template structures. (The
properties of the actual structures where inherited from the template
structures)
This is the PCML for my NoteServices web service:
http://code.midrange.com/e53516a5ab.html
The web service wizard built the following WSDL:
http://code.midrange.com/be8f37197a.html
Duane Christen
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