Re: XMLSERVICE and Parsing XML Responses

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> If nobody else does it first one of the things on my “when I have time”
list is to look at adding JSON support to XMLSERVICE.

Note XMLSERVICE is now managed/hosted on bitbucket:
http://bit.ly/bitbucket-xmlservice-rpg

Here is the "issue" where JSON support is being discussed:
http://bit.ly/xmlservice-json-support

If you pursue helping then you could/should write an article about your
XMLSERVICE efforts by doing a fork/pull-request.  See this article for what
I mean by fork/pull-request:
http://bit.ly/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-on-ibmi

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Despite its name Bard it isn’t an “XML package” it is a package that uses
> XML as its data input/output mechanism just as a SOAP web service does.
>
> I’d personally love to see a JSON option - I suspect XML was only chosen
> because the compilers were already generating PCML for use by the JT/400
> APIs.
>
> If nobody else does it first one of the things on my “when I have time”
> list is to look at adding JSON support to XMLSERVICE.