Re: Struggling with API QDFRTVFD

No, Frank.
I had complete failure in my activity and I just dropped it.
The problem I tried to solve was very "applicational" and could be
solved in a different way using a couple of "manual iterations".
Of course the exercise was pretty challenging, but I could not spend
infinite time for that ....

This API is a real nightmare itself and the documentation is a double nightmare.

Jevgeni.


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Frank Kolmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jevgeni
>
> How are things, hope all is well.
> Did you manage to get the API working?
>
> I have a RPG version coded here. http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/QDFRTVFD
> The API is VERY BIG and my program only gets the basic info of
> Fields/Constants and attributes.
> But I am not doing so well in converting it to C.
>
> Perhaps you have some suggestions.
>
>
> Regards
> Frank
>
>
>>From: Jevgeni Astanovski <Jevgeni.Astanovski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:01:34 +0000
>>
>>Thought that "with a little help" from Mark and Carsten I solved my
> problem.
>>How mistaken I've been...
>>I only need a list of fields with field name, I/O attribute, field type
> and length.
>>
>>Found field names in QDFFNTB structure. Very good. All other necessary
> data was also available starting from there.
>>But then I found out, that hidden fields' names are missing in QDFFNTB
> structure at all! Field is mentioned, I can retrieve all attributes - but
> not the name...
>>
>>Continued searching - as Carsten advised - went to QDFWFLEI and from there
> to QDFWRCDI and QDFFNTBL.
>>Very good again, now all names available, including hindden, also field
> lengths.
>>But how to get data type and I/O? There is an index to QDFFFITB, but I saw
> that in my DSPF with 7 formats these indexes repeate. So they are unique
> inside one format only. And I failed to find reference to format names in
> Where-Used part of the puzzle...
>>The only idea I have by now is to rely on formats order and assume that
> order of records in "Where-used" section matches exactly order of formats
> in Record format table (QDFARFTE)
>>
>>Or I am missing something again?
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