Re: Help with SYSTOOLS.HTTPPOSTCLOB

Some tools are better for a specific job than others. SQL is wonderful for many many things, but for some web services with complex responses I find it has a nasty tendency to result in write-only code that takes as long to decipher as it took to write.

I also personally find that having to learn a different approach when parsing JSON from that for XML is (at best) annoying.

But mostly I am becoming a little cranky these days with the all-too-frequent "The answer is SQL - now what was your question?"


Jon Paris

On Sep 16, 2021, at 5:35 AM, Tim Fathers <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...why on earth would you use some third-party library when it can be done easily with the tools that come with the machine though? Sometimes it seems people would rather spend ages fiddling with qhell, Python, curl, some third-party library etc. than learn to use SQL 🙂

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"Personally, I'd use the HTTPAPI and just send the file that way. Not everything needs to be done with SQL."

Glad to see you say that Chris - there are days when I feel like I'm the only one who feels that way.


Jon Paris

On Sep 14, 2021, at 4:57 PM, Hiebert, Chris <chris.hiebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

VALUES SYSTOOLS.HTTPPOSTBLOB(
URL=>'https://www.google.com/'
, HTTPHEADER=>''
, REQUESTMSG=> GET_BLOB_FROM_FILE( '/tmp/filename.zip')
) ;

CLOB is a bad idea for zip files.
BLOB is better.

Also, you will want to look at what postman is doing for the http header.
You probably need to include some sort of authentication.

Personally, I'd use the HTTPAPI and just send the file that way. Not everything needs to be done with SQL.

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.

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Subject: Help with SYSTOOLS.HTTPPOSTCLOB

Hi all

I would need to invoke a webservice to post a zip file in azure; i would use
SYSTOOLS.HTTPPOSTCLOB , but i can't figure how can i fill the parameters
Thanks in advance

Gio

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