Re: WSDL2RPG or not?

Vern,

XML isn't the problem, it's the SOAP requirements that are usually a pain.

Charles

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 4:14 PM Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Charles

I've found that XMLTABLE isn't all that ugly - it's syntax looks a lot
like CREATE TABLE in many ways.

As for calling a web service, Birgitta Hauser has nice examples of doing
that in SQL, even with nesting in the XMLTABLE. In addition, a lot of
this stuff can go into views, according to Birgitta.

Regards
Vern

On 7/21/2020 4:57 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

JSON_TABLE is only useful if the web service you're calling is returning
JSON...

Given that it's a SOAP webservice, it's returning XML.

XMLTABLE might be an option for processing the returned data, but it'd
likely be ugly. Not to mention trying to call a SOAP webservice with
httpgetclob (or more likely httppostclob) would be very, very, ugly.

Thus the use of tooling that understands Web Service Definition Language
(WSDL) and makes a SOAP web service easier to call and process it's
response.

Charles

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:34 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Next question (remember, this is all new ground for me so the questions
are pretty low-level):

Wouldn't one use json_table() today?

From working code:

****

**exec sql select * into :wCity, :wCountry, :wID from
json_table(systools.httpgetclob(:URL, ''), 'lax $' columns( CITY
varchar(50) path '$.name', COUNTRY varchar(2) path '$.sys.country', ID
dec(10) path '$.id') empty on error); **

****

On 7/21/2020 9:00 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

That is what he was talking about Booth.

Most think of IWS as the Server part. WSDL2RPG is the client side.

...

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