RE: HTTPAPI: Output to File changing brackets -- RPG400-L

David - changing that content value didn't work - the API call received an error response of an invalid content type. Also, when I called it with that same content type and didn't push the results to IFS I didn't have the issue.

Brad - I'm not sure what you're headers you're referring to that wasn't posted in the original message. I didn't cut out any of the XML from the start.

Scott:
" It is an XML document with an element named 'string' that has another XML document passed inside of it."
That was my initial response as well. But, there is no such thing (from my google searching) as a reserved XML element (other than xml), meaning <string> is not a special element that would imply that everything coming before </string> would be a value and not more xml elements.
As I noted before, the escaping is only happening when the file is saved to the IFS, and not when processed directly.
And please don't take any offense. I'm not *blaming* anyone here, but something is causing this to happen and I was hoping to find a way to prevent it from happening, wherever that may be occurring.

For a new vendor of ours we're doing something very similar with them using JSON instead of XML, so I may end up changing the process that is having this issue over to JSON.

Kurt Anderson
System Development Manager, Service Delivery Platform

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Subject: Re: HTTPAPI: Output to File changing brackets

No, the brackets are getting escaped. HTTPAPI or the IFS APIs will never do that.

That is how the data is coming from the server. The OP should run a test returning to the PC vs IFS file again to see if that really is the difference that made this change, or if in fact the change from in house to web service is the culprit.

When you run into issues, look at what has CHANGED, don't blame what hasn't changed. :)

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:55 PM Greg Wilburn < gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Could this be a data conversion issue having something to do with the
CCSID used when creating the IFS file?

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Kurt Anderson
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Subject: HTTPAPI: Output to File changing brackets

[I first sent this to the FTPAPI mailing list, but it never showed up
there, so I thought I'd try here]

Recently a vendor of ours changed from providing an on-premise
solution to requiring that we use their web services instead.
In initial testing, I was getting the data response back to the RPG
program directly and everything was fine. However due to the high
volume of data, I now have the API output the data to the IFS, and
then I parse it from there. However, when I have the API output the file to the IFS, it's
replacing the brackets as if it thinks they are a part of the data. The
quick solution was to have the process fix the brackets, but I feel
both the API changing the brackets as well as me fixing them is taking
way too long.

Example of data being returned:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <string
xmlns="http://tempuri.org/";><?xml version="1.0"?> <Response
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Successful>Y</Successful>
<ResponseCode>9999</ResponseCode>
<HeaderMessage>Success</HeaderMessage>

The procedure I'm calling is http_url_post I'm not sure if this
matters, but:
Content Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded User Agent:
Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

Do you have any suggestions to prevent the bracket replacement from
happening?

I scoured the HTTPAPI source and didn't see come across anything I
felt was causing this to happen.

Thanks,

Kurt Anderson
System Development Manager, Service Delivery Platform
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