Re: IWS, REST APIs, and Logging

From: Stephen Piland <Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"

Date: 04/28/2021 11:24 AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WEB400] IWS, REST APIs, and Logging
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Any thoughts on the timeline on this? Just curious. We've been on
Version 2.6 for a long time.

-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Nadir Amra
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:59 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)

Subject: Re: [WEB400] IWS, REST APIs, and Logging

When we implement logging of payloads, It will fail, but you would
still have a log of the payload.


"WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 04/27/2021

PM:

From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"

<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: 04/27/2021 12:06 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WEB400] IWS, REST APIs, and Logging
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yup - that could be useful I agree - although I suspect that IWS
would fail anyway while attempting the unpacking.


Jon Paris

On Apr 27, 2021, at 1:00 PM, Stephen Piland

<Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

True. I agree that it would diminish the value of IWS. I was

hoping that turning on some logging, etc would allow us to capture
the payload/body IF it was 'malformed' and it can't unpack into the
parameters.

-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon

Paris

Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 11:02 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)

<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: [WEB400] IWS, REST APIs, and Logging

Well it kinda goes against the whole point of IWS which is to

avoid you having to concern your self with such issues. The payload
is unpacked into the parameters and vice-versa for you.

If you really need to access the body why use IWS at all?



Jon Paris

On Apr 27, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Stephen Piland

<Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I haven't seen any way to do this so far, but I thought I'd ask

the group...

Is there any way to capture the 'payload'/body sent in? Ideally,

pre-execution of the program or service program call from within
IWS. If not, is there a way to capture it in the called pgm perhaps
as a BLOB that could be stored?