Re: Reg: Suggestions Required for Web Services for IBMi

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not clear on the issue(s) involved.  Is your web service consuming or 
publishing data?  Or both?  In an error scenario, what is it you want to 
have happen?

Anyway, here's my two cents:  Take a look at SQL, too.  I've used YAJL, 
IWS, and SQL for web services and my own experiences leads me to 
appreciate the great work Scott Klement did with YAJL but I came to 
realize that for publishing a web service it is really hard to beat the 
work of the folks that brought us the IWS wizard.  Simple, fast, and in 
my opinion, IWS handles errors quite robustly.   And, for consuming a 
web service, SQL is truly hard to beat.

The learning curves, for me, were painful but worth it.

On 1/24/2020 5:03 PM, Suren K wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am planning to introduce Web Services for my IBMi application. I need
> some suggestion to choose which Web Services to go with.
>
> This web services which i am planning will be mainly focused for REST Based
> API Calls. Also i did a small POC in my application using Scott's YAJL tool
> using DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN for Parsing JSON Document into Data Structure
> and vice versa. So i am planning to use Scott's YAJL tool as well.
>
> Initially i thought of using IWS, but i could see the below two drawbacks
> with IWS
> 1) In Error Scenario the JSON body will not be sent back to Client
> 2) It Supports only 4 HTTP methods (GET, PUT, DELETE and POST) but as per
> my application requirement i need to use PATCH method as well.
> Do any one knows when IBM will fix the above two stuffs? If it is within 3
> or 6 months then i am very happy to use IWS as Web Services.
>
> The other options in my mind are
> 1) With Apache HTTP Server and using CGI method, call the RPG Program
> 2) Node.js
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Surender K