RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

<Joe>
2. There's a limit to the size of the data that can be held in an RPG
variable.  I should have thought of this right off the bat.  I'll have
to expand the API to use a user space instead.  Scott, what do you
think?  This can't be all that hard, right?
</Joe>

I have an API that will take an IFS file and write it to a User Space if you
would like that.  I use it in conjunction with Scott's HTTPAPI's - I just
pass the User Space pointer to Scott's API.  I have included the code for
that below along with a couple of supporting sub procs.

I know this doesn't exactly apply to your situation, but when you get to the
part of receiving XML into an "RPG Web Service" through Apache, I have
written code that has gotten around the 65535 limitation (basically writing
to a User Space).  We had quite the long discussion about it on WEB400 about
9 months ago.  If you can't find the thread I can post the code again.


Aaron Bartell

 
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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      // @Name -
      // @Author - Aaron Bartell
      // @Description - Take the contents of the specified file and write it
to the specified User
      //                Space.  The User Space must have already been
created otherwise this will  
      //                error out.  The amount of data written to the User
Space will be returned. 
      // @Usage - sizeOfUsrSpc = IFS_fileToUsrSpc('QTEMP': 'MYSPACE':
'/myfolder/myfile.txt');
 
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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     P IFS_fileToUsrSpc...
     P                 B                   Export
     D IFS_fileToUsrSpc...
     D                 PI            10I 0
     D  pUsrSpcLib                   10A   Value
     D  pUsrSpcName                  10A   Value
     D  pFile                       256A   Value

     D handle          S             10I 0
     D rc              S             10I 0
     D strPos          S             10I 0 Inz(1)
     D data            S          32767A
      /Free

       If IFS_fileExists(pFile);

         handle = IFS_openFile(pFile: 'RW C CP');
         DoU handle < 0 or rc < 1;
           rc = read(handle: %Addr(data): %Size(data));
           If rc > 0;
             UsrSpc_change(pUsrSpcLib: pUsrSpcName: strPos: rc: data: '0');
           EndIf;
           strPos = strPos + rc;
         EndDo;

       EndIf;

       Return strPos;

      /End-Free
     P IFS_fileToUsrSpc...
     P                 E

 
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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      // @Name -
      // @Author - Aaron Bartell
      // @Description - Open a file in the IFS and receive back an handle to
use with other IFS sub
      //                procs. The flags are as follows: 
      //                R = Read 
      //                W = Write
      //                A = Append 
      //                C = Create 
      //                CP = Code Page 
      //                T = Truncate upon opening 
      // @Usage - handle = IFS_openFile('/mydir/myfile': 'RW CP');
 
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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     P IFS_openFile...
     P                 B                   Export
     D IFS_openFile...
     D                 PI            10I 0
     D  pFile                       256A   Value
     D  pFlags                       15A   Value
     D  pCodePage                    10I 0 Value Options(*NoPass)

     D rc              S             10I 0
     D handle          S             10I 0
     D IFSMODE         C                   Const(511)
     D flags           S             10I 0
     D codePage        S             10I 0
      /Free

       If %Parms > 2;
         codePage = pCodePage;
       Else;
         codePage = CP_DOSASCII;
       EndIf;

       flags = 0;

       If %Scan('R': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = flags + O_RDONLY;
       EndIf;

       If %Scan('W': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = flags + O_WRONLY;
       EndIf;

       If %Scan('W': pFlags) > 0 and %Scan('R': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = O_RDWR;
       EndIf;

       If %Scan('A': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = flags + O_APPEND;
       EndIf;

       If %Scan('C': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = flags + O_CREAT;
         If %Scan('T': pFlags) > 0;
           flags = flags + O_TRUNC;
         EndIf;
       EndIf;

       If %Scan('CP': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = flags + O_CODEPAGE;
       EndIf;


       handle = open(%Trim(pFile): flags: IFSMODE: codePage);

       If handle < 0;
         Return handle;
       EndIf;

       rc = close(handle);

       // Take the necessary tags back out for the second open
       If %Scan('C': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = flags - O_CREAT;
         If %Scan('T': pFlags) > 0;
           flags = flags - O_TRUNC;
         EndIf;
       EndIf;

       If %Scan('CP': pFlags) > 0;
         flags = flags - O_CODEPAGE;
       EndIf;

       Return open(%Trim(pFile): flags + O_TEXTDATA: IFSMODE: codePage);


      /End-Free
     P IFS_openFile...
     P                 E               

 
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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      // @Name -
      // @Author - Aaron Bartell
      // @Description - Check to see if the specified file exists in the
IFS.
      // @Usage - boolean = IFS_fileExists('/mydir/myfile.txt');
 
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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     P IFS_fileExists...
     P                 B                   Export
     D IFS_fileExists...
     D                 PI              N
     D  pFile                       256A   Value
      /Free

       If access(%TrimR(pFile): F_OK) < 0;
         Return *Off;
       Else;
         Return *On;
       EndIf;

      /End-Free
     P IFS_fileExists...
     P                 E