Re: IWS, REST and retrieving variables from QUERY_STRING

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

This question should be asked in the WEB400 list..

Charles

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:48 AM Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm creating a REST webservice/api and using IWS.  I'm then using Postman
> to test the webservice.  All the endpoints call procedures in a service
> program..
>
> I have an endpoint /web/server/claims which will call the RPG procedure
> GetAllClaims which returns all claims.  I have tested  this with Postman
> and it works correctly.
>
> My next step is to add a filter.  So I call the same endpoint but this time
> I pass a parameter of whid.  So the endpoint now becomes
> /web/server/claims/?whid=93 which will call the RPG procedure GetAllClaims
> but this time I need to extract the parameter passed in the QUERY_STRING to
> return only claims for warehouse 93.
>
> Can someone point me to either documentation or an example of how to
> specify and extract from the QUERY_STRING.  I've done a lot of searching on
> Google but I must not be searching on the correct terms because I can't
> find anything on QUERY_STRING other than that you may specify it..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
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