Re: Node Toolkit for i on a Windows Server

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly

so the answer is simple, if you can run iToolkit.js in your MS browser the
iToolkit will probably also
run from Wscript.exe - the problem are how to you get anything out of the
javascript engine, it
is sandboxed into the MS javascript virtual machine.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kelly
>
> WScript.exe just a wrapper that amoung others languages calls the MS
> javascript engine that also runs in
> their browser so it is just "running the javascript engine from the shell
> instead of via the browser" = without
> the browsers debugging tools ;-)
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:12 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I know this will probably raise the question "Why?" But...
> >
> > I came across an article that says you can run JavaScript in the Windows
> > OS and in the Microsoft IIS web server:
> > https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/831752/JavaScript-for-
> > Windows-server-side
> > I tried the first hello world example on my laptop and it worked. I need
> > to see if I can get my JS scripts to run in IIS.
> >
> > Given that we have XMLSERVICE up and running on our IBM i, could I:
> >
> > 1.     Copy the itoolkit.js from the IFS into a directory on my laptop.
> >
> > 2.     Write a JS script that requires itoolkit.js and, say, calls a CL
> > program with the iPgm class.
> >
> > 3.     Run that JS script on my laptop via Windows or the Microsoft IIS
> > web server (no use of Node).
> >
> > In theory, would this work? I do not want explore this possibility if it
> > cannot possibly work. I would rather just know it is impossible up
> > front-and why.
> >
> > I'm also looking at the iisnode module to run Node apps in Microsoft IIS:
> > https://www.simplymigrate.com/2017/04/11/internet-informatio
> > n-server-iis-node-js-in-producton-iisnode/
> > This becomes much more interesting if my Node app can use itoolkit.js to
> > remotely access IBM i resources analogous to the way a Java app using
> > jt400.jar can remotely access IBM i resources.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kelly Cookson
> > IT Project Leader
> > Dot Foods, Inc.
> > 217-773-4486 ext. 12676
> > www.dotfoods.com<http://www.dotfoods.com>
> >
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