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Re: Open Access - Json Template

There shouldn't need to be both in the same place. They are both separate
entities that can be used together. Many examples exist and have been
mentioned.

That's like asking your tire salesman to also teach you how to use your air
compressor.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes I know Scott but I figured he could probably work it out from the
examples that do exist.

I should probably also have referenced your YAJL stuff but figured he’d
figure that out.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Nov 8, 2016, at 4:34 PM, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jon,

None of my examples for web services use YAJL, unfortunately. The YAJL
presentation covers YAJL, but not really web services :-) Its a
chicken-and-egg problem, I don't have time to teach both in one session,
and I can never assume people in the YAJL session are already familiar with
web services, or the people in the web services session are familiar with
YAJL.

What I really should do (if I had time and wasn't so burned out) is
write an article about it and put it on my web site. Sigh.

-SK



On 11/8/2016 3:13 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
Since you are _supplying_ the service (as opposed to consuming it)
there really would be little point in using OA. Think of it as a way for
an RPG program to easily access functionality via conventional opcodes that
would otherwise require API calls (such as YAJL, CGIDEV2, or HTTPAPI).

In other words, to make it easier for less enlightened programmers to
easily use the wonderful features that you supply.

Assuming that you don’t want to get into using PHP or node.js or …
anything except RPG in this project then your simple choices are a CGI type
approach as mentioned earlier or the built-in wizards for the app server.
Some of Scott’s examples in his seminar on web services show you how to do
this booth ways. The biggest difference is that with the wizard you don’t
really get to control the complete response, with a CGI approach you’re in
complete control. Whether that matters or not only you can decide.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Nov 8, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Slanina, John <jslanina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon,
Before, I could not get nested arrays working with web services
wizard. Now I got it working.
So now we are down to which way is the fastest and easiest to
maintain. We have 50 API and add about 3 to 4 a month.

You kind of talked me out on using your open access :)

John Slanina


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Jon Paris
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 12:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Open Access - Json Template

John,

My OA template is generic - there is really nothing web service
specific that I could add.

I have published one example that consumes a web service - it uses
Scott’s HTTPAPI under the covers to handle the web service interaction.
That is also referenced in my OA session.

Consider for a moment that one way to supply a web service is via
HTTP. In my session I showed how a handler can be written that (in my case)
interfaces with CGIDEV2 to handle the web side. The same principal could be
applied to web services.

You don’t say what kind of web services you intend to supply (REST vs
SOAP for example) - don’t forget that the web services wizard can also be
used to provide these services from conventional RPG programs.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Nov 8, 2016, at 8:27 AM, Slanina, John <jslanina@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jon Paris,
I am working on a proof of concept to handle to move all our JSON Web
service API's to the IBM I,
Do you have a template program for open access to handle JSON over
Http? I took you class at the summit, But not see good example for
handling Web service Traffic.
I will using Scotts JSON API's.


Thanks
John Slanina
slaninaj@xxxxxxxxxx
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