Re: IWS, REST and retrieving variables from QUERY_STRING

From: Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"

Date: 08/05/2020 12:00 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WEB400] IWS, REST and retrieving variables
from QUERY_STRING
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yippee, all is working now. Thanks for all the help.

One last question. In your example when you specify the parameters as
*PATH_PARAM you also have the ability to specify a regex expression

{1,3}}. I couldn't see anywhere to specify this for *QUERY_PARAMs. Is
there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Rob

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 1:57 PM Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks again Nadir. I have some higher priority work today but

I'll be able to attempt to reproduce your tests tomorrow.

Thanks,

Rob

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:37 PM Nadir Amra <amra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Update urls so that they would be visible....


"WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/03/2020
11:31:34
AM:

From: "Nadir Amra" <amra@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\)"
<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/03/2020 11:31 AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WEB400] IWS, REST and retrieving variables
from QUERY_STRING
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I created a simple procedure as follows:

**free
CTL-OPT NOMAIN PGMINFO(*PCML:*MODULE:*DCLCASE);

dcl-proc GetAllClaims export;
dcl-pi *n extproc(*dclcase);
store ZONED(8 : 0) const;
warehouse ZONED(8 : 0) const;
status varchar(100) const;

outBuffer varchar(1000);
end-pi;

outBuffer = 'store=' + %CHAR(store) + '; warehouse=' +

%CHAR(warehouse)

+ '; status=' + status;

return;
end-proc GetAllClaims;


I deployed with following attributes:

Procedure name: GetAllClaims
HTTP request method: GET
URI path template for method: {store: \d{1,3}}
HTTP response code output parameter: *NONE
HTTP header array output parameter: *NONE
HTTP header information: *NONE
Error response output parameter:
Allowed input media types: *ALL
Returned output media types: *JSON
Identifier for input wrapper element: GetAllClaimsInput
Identifier for input wrapper element: GetAllClaimsResult

Input parameter mappings:
Parameter name Data type Input source Identifier Default
Value
store zoned *PATH_PARAM store *NONE
warehouse zoned *QUERY_PARAM warehouse 0
status varchar *QUERY_PARAM status

And I did not have any problems. When I used URL:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?
, I got:

{"outBuffer":"store=123; warehouse=0; status="}

When I used

http://host.ibm.com:10010/web/services/INJECT/123/?warehouse=444 , I

got:

{"outBuffer":"store=123; warehouse=444; status="}

When I used

, I got:

{"outBuffer":"store=123; warehouse=444; status=up"}

If you are still having problems, then you should load latest IWS

PTF[1]

and it would be a good idea to load latest HTTP group PTF[2].

[1] https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1138612

[2] https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6211843


"WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/03/2020

09:29:56

AM:

From: Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"

<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: 08/02/2020 08:12 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WEB400] IWS, REST and retrieving

variables

from QUERY_STRING
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I was unsuccessful in what I was trying so let me post what

trying

to

do so someone can comment on if I'm taking the correct

As

stated

earlier I am using IWS.

I have an API /web/services/claims If I call this I ant

all

claims. If I want all claims for an individual store I would

/web/services/claims/188 which would return all claims for

188.

But

I also want to be able to filter the results by warehouse

status

so

I'm thinking these would be injected(?) into the query string
/web/services/claims/188/?whid=95&stat=C.
My prototype looks like this

dcl-proc GetAllClaims export;
dcl-pi *n extproc(*dclcase);
store like(ossushpTmp.o1cus#) const;
warehouse like(ossushpTmp.o1whid) const;
stat like(ossushpTmp.o1stat) const;
claimsHdrDs_length int(10);
claimsHdrDs likeds(claimsHdrDsTmp) dim(1000)

options(*varsize);

httpStatus int(10);
httpHeaders char(100) dim(10);
end-pi;

When I enter this in the wizard on Deploy New Service (step 9

9),

on

the

Methods tab I see
*Procedure name*:GetAllClaims
*HTTP **request method*:GET
*URI path template for method*:{store: \d{1,3}}
*HTTP response code output parameter*:httpStatus
*HTTP header array output parameter*:httpHeaders
*Allowed input media types*:*ALL
*Returned output media types*:*JSON
*Input parameter mappings:*
Parameter nameData typeInput sourceIdentifierDefault Value
store zoned *PATH_PARAM store *NONE
warehouse zoned *QUERY_PARAM warehouse 0
status char *QUERY_PARAM status '*NONE

This looks like what I think I'm trying to achieve.

i deploy the webservice and then call.

/web/services/claims HTTP ERROR 405 (is this because of

path

template?)
/web/services/claims/0 All claims are returned for all

stores.

(In

the

code if the store = 0 then store is not added to the prepared

statement)

/web/services/claims/188 Only claims for store 188 are

returned

which

is correct.
/web/services/claims/188/?warehouse=93 and
/web/services/claims/188/?warehouse=93&stat=C Both filters

not

work.