Thanks Scott.
The application I'm working on has an exact match between the format of the file and the XML data structure. So I'd like to take advantage of that and try to get away with defining all my structures externally by hooking into the external file definitions in RPG.
I've used the parsing routine in HTTPAPI, where there was a need to evaluate individual elements. Although it's been fabulous for those applications where there was a variable element to the data coming in, in this application it seems like unnecessary overhead to do that.
I like the simplicity of XML-INTO, since it potentially allows me to make use of those external definitions and avoid identifying individual elements in the program. It's also makes for a much smaller program. Less code to maintain=happy me !
Perhaps my lack of experience is showing here, but I guess an upgrade is the obvious answer.
..then I do have another issue with XML-INTO. In the service program, I'm using a cursor to get the data into up to 999 instances of a data structure. When I define the result in the consuming program, the compiler tells me that XML-INTO has a potential problem with the size of the data structure exceeding 65535 bytes.
Can you comment on this please.
Thanks so much.
David Baugh
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:19 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: namespace issue from IWS Wizard
Hi David,
On 3/20/2012 10:55 AM, David Baugh wrote:
When I run this in SOAPui, I notice that all the elements have a namespace prefix of 'ns:_' .
e.g. where my field name from my program is 'ID', the element is called 'ns:_ID'.
Yes, that's what IWS always does...
In my test RPG program to consume that service, I'm calling Scott's
HPPTAPI routine 'http_url_post' to send the input to a file in the
IFS, then using that as input to XML-INTO. I keep getting kicked out
of XML-INTO because it can't find a match in my RPG variable.
If you are on IBM i 6.1 or higher, there are PTFs available that provide a "case=convert" option for XML-INTO. With this option, RPG will translate any characters that aren't available in an RPG variable name into a valid RPG variable name. The same PTF provides an ns=remove option to strip the namespace (which is the 'ns:' part) if so desired.
You can learn more about this PTF, here:
http://tinyurl.com/rpg-xml-into-namespace
Alternately, instead of using XML-INTO, consider using either XML-SAX or the XML parser included with HTTPAPI. These won't have problems with this on any release.
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