Re: IBM i as a webserver with low cost tools

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tor. 3. jun. 2021 kl. 23.33 skrev Marco Facchinetti <
marco.facchinetti-kthxv0ud/[email protected]>:

> Basically IWS maps ILE RPG programs into RESTfull service. I found it very
> usefull especially because it's free and it's integrated in the operating
> system.
>
> HTH
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> Marco Facchinetti
>
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> Il giorno gio 3 giu 2021 alle ore 19:22 Tim Fathers <[email protected]> ha
> scritto:
>
> > Basically I just need to map a URI to a stored procedure or RPG program
> > and have access to the raw bodies and headers for the request and
> response?
> > I'm not really interested in having it try to decode data-structures or
> > parameters, I prefer to do that using SQL. Could it do that?
> >
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> > ________________________________
> > From: WEB400 <[email protected]> on behalf of Marco
> > Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti-kthxv0ud/[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 4:44:25 PM
> > To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <
> [email protected]
> > >
> > Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i as a webserver with low cost tools
> >
> > "I suspect that IWS might be able to do almost the same thing, so it
> might
> > not even be necessary, but I haven't had time to look."
> >
> > The marriage between RPG and IWS works very well. And IBM's support is
> (as
> > always) great.
> >
> > HTH
> > --
> > Marco Facchinetti
> >
> > Mr S.r.l.
> >
> > Tel. 035 962885
> > Cel. 393 9620498
> >
> > Skype: facchinettimarco
> >
> >
> > Il giorno gio 3 giu 2021 alle ore 13:33 Tim Fathers <[email protected]>
> ha
> > scritto:
> >
> > >
> > > The short(ish) answer is that it's built on Express, it basically just
> > > extracts the HTTP headers, along with host name, method, cookies and a
> > > bunch of other things and then passes them as a JSON object, together
> > with
> > > the request body, to a despatcher stored procedure. The despatcher
> > > determines which application SP should process the request based on the
> > > route and method (although any other criteria available could be used,
> > such
> > > as the "content-type" or "accepts" headers) and calls that.
> > >
> > > The despatcher and the processing SPs have four parameters:
> > >   in REQUEST - a JSON object with the header data mentioned above
> > >   in REQUEST_BODY - a JSON object with the request body (mine are
> always
> > > JSON)
> > >   inout RESPONSE_DATA - a JSON object with the response data, similar
> to
> > > the header data mentioned above
> > >   out RESPONSE - a CLOB/BLOB/JSON/XML etc. with the response body
> > >
> > > The SPs are able to inspect the REQUEST_DATA JSON parameter to find out
> > > the path or query parameters or any of the other information relevant
> to
> > > the call, populate the response body and fill in any relevant parts of
> > the
> > > response header information, such as status code, or content-type.
> > >
> > > Actually, while it's only about 80 lines of Typescript, there are
> another
> > > couple of hundred lines of SQL in the dispatching and route resolution
> > SQL
> > > SPs, so a bit more than the few dozen lines I claimed! Also, the
> version
> > I
> > > currently use against a MariaDB database (hence the slightly different
> > SQL
> > > syntax above), I haven't ported it yet to the IBM i yet - but I don't
> see
> > > any issue doing that, there's nothing database specific in the code.
> In
> > > any case, I suspect that IWS might be able to do almost the same thing,
> > so
> > > it might not even be necessary, but I haven't had time to look.
> > >
> > > I'll stick the source on GitHub at some point, in case it's useful to
> > > someone.
> > >
> > > Tim.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: WEB400 <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve
> > > Richter <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: 02 June 2021 17:12
> > > To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <
> > [email protected]
> > > >
> > > Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i as a webserver with low cost tools
> > >
> > > >  if you're on 7.2 or later, you can even build the JSON responses
> right
> > > in the SQL and then you only need a
> > > >  very thin middleware layer (the one I currently use is just a few
> > dozen
> > > lines of Typescript).
> > >
> > > how does this work?
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