Re: Reg: Suggestions Required for Web Services for IBMi

From IWS perspective, for issue (1), this should be resolved in first
quarter. issue (2), we are looking into it.


"WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/24/2020 05:03:56
PM:

From: Suren K <suren7437@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"

<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: 01/24/2020 05:04 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [WEB400] Reg: Suggestions Required for Web
Services for IBMi
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

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