Re: Suggestions Required for Web Services for IBMi

[Suren K <suren7437@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the Suggestion Richard. I will explore it.

Regards,
Surender K

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:38 PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Check out this Github project from Niels Liisberg. It's a self-hosted HTTP
> server for quick and easy RPG based services and even sites. I plan to be
> doing some work with it this year.
>
> You can also use NGINX or Apache as a front end if you need an SSL layer
> in front of it.
>
> https://github.com/sitemule/ILEastic
>
> Otherwise you can consider:
> CGI or Node as you mentioned or even PHP or Java. Many options.
>
> Personally I would not choose IWS Server. Too klunky for mainstream
> services.
>
> My two cents 😊
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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>
> message: 1
> date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:03:56 -0500
> from: Suren K <suren7437@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: [WEB400]
>
> 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
>
>
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