Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Consuming RESTful APIs from RPG/COBOL ILE

No problem.

Feel free to contact me offline with any specific questions as well. I'm
very responsive and am happy to help set up sample requests, etc. There's
nothing that I haven't seen over the 20+ years GETURI has been available.
:)

There are also trial keys available at www.bvstools.com. The keys are for
10 days but you can keep requesting new ones as long as you need for
testing/trials.

At www.fieldexit.com if you search for GETURI you also will find a few
samples on how to use it, and documentation is at https://doc.bvstools.com

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 9:08 AM Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Brad. I’m adding GETURI to the list.

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
Senior Software Engineer II
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 ext. 12676
www.dotfoods.com<http://www.dotfoods.com/>

From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of B Stone
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 8:54 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WEB400] Consuming RESTful APIs from RPG/COBOL ILE

There's always GETURI as well:

www.bvstools.com/geturi.html<http://www.bvstools.com/geturi.html>.

It's similar to HTTPAPI, but there is a command line interface as well as a
callable API. Data can be returned to a stream file in the IFS, a PF
(which I don't recommend but some use), or if you're using the API the data
can be returned to the program.

There is a yearly cost which is around $300, but that's pretty cheap for a
product plus support.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com<http://www.bvstools.com>
MAILTOOL Benefit #13 <https://www.bvstools.com/mailtool.html<
https://www.bvstools.com/mailtool.html>>: The ability
to use an IFS stream file as the body of the email (either text or html).

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 2:02 AM Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Hi,



We are making a list of options for *consuming* RESTful APIs from an RPG
or COBOL ILE program. I am hoping to get help building the list.



Here are options on our list so far:



1. HTTPFunctions in SYSTOOLS. Right now this is the top of our list,
but things can change.



1. IWS. Tim Rowe recently pointed out that IWS can consume RESTful web
services as well as expose them.



1. HTTPAPI utility. I found this on Scott Klement’s website (
https://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/<

https://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/> ).

We know how to use Node.js to *expose* RESTful APIs on the IBM i.

However,

if we want to consume an API from a COBOL or CL program, we only know of
one way to call a Node.js script: use a QShell command. The QShell

command

does not appear to have a way to return data from the Node.js script. We
can’t get the data from the API we want to consume. We thought about

having

the Node.js script consume the API and write the data into a database

file

or data queue, which would then be available for processing by the COBOL

or

CL program. But…ugh! It just seems like a clunky workaround.



We would prefer not to use PHP or Java. Nothing at all wrong with these
languages. They work great. This is just a preference of our particular
shop for non-technical reasons.



Thanks,



Kelly Cookson

Senior Software Engineer II

Dot Foods, Inc.

217-773-4486 ext. 12676

www.dotfoods.com<http://www.dotfoods.com>


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