Re: IWS, REST and retrieving variables from QUERY_STRING

Hi Robert, I'd like to underline a very nice future provided in IWS server:

If your response contains arrays (or DS arrays) you can say to IWS how many
of them are populated and the caller will receive only the populated part.

This nice future fills a very deep gap between RPG and Web developers since
they expect an array to contain only the used values.

HTH
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Il giorno mar 28 lug 2020 alle ore 23:14 Robert Rogerson <
rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Marco and Charles, after watching Tim's video and now have a better
understanding of how IWS passes parameters. I will use IWS's builtin
capacity for my parameters.

Thanks to everyone's suggestions.

Rob

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:09 PM Marco Facchinetti <
marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Robert, is there a specific reason not to use IWS builtin capacity

to

deliver parsed parameters to the called RPG *PGM/*SRVPGM?

Just curious about other developers' use of IWS.

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Cel. 393 9620498

Skype: facchinettimarco


Il giorno mar 28 lug 2020 alle ore 15:46 Robert Rogerson <
rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Hi All,

I'm creating a REST webservice/api and using IWS. I'm then using

Postman

to test the webservice. All the endpoints call procedures in a

service

program..

I have an endpoint /web/server/claims which will call the RPG

procedure

GetAllClaims which returns all claims. I have tested this with

Postman

and it works correctly.

My next step is to add a filter. So I call the same endpoint but

this

time

I pass a parameter of whid. So the endpoint now becomes
/web/server/claims/?whid=93 which will call the RPG procedure

GetAllClaims

but this time I need to extract the parameter passed in the

QUERY_STRING

to

return only claims for warehouse 93.

Can someone point me to either documentation or an example of how to
specify and extract from the QUERY_STRING. I've done a lot of

searching

on

Google but I must not be searching on the correct terms because I

can't

find anything on QUERY_STRING other than that you may specify it..

Thanks,

Rob
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