About IBM i Webservices - RPG Examples to Read/Write webservices
We have various techniques for reading (consuming) webservices out there in Internet Land. Let's use (a) SQL which is super convenient and native to IBM i and (b) the HTTPAPI opensource solution.
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We have various techniques for reading (consuming) webservices out there in Internet Land. Let's use (a) SQL which is super convenient and native to IBM i and (b) the HTTPAPI opensource solution.
IBM i connecting and reading from an internet webservice
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Good Question! Let's discuss the various ways an RPG program can be written as A WEBSERVICE to share information with any requesters on the internet.
This reads the JSON from the IFS – decodes it using Y.A.J.L and reports on time taken to perform decode. Writing an RPG program to read JSON using YAJL is actually pretty straightforward — I hope this code example helps!
This reads the JSON from the IFS – decodes it using JSON_TABLE and reports on time taken to perform decode.
IBM i Hosting a webservice and serving the results to the outside world
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Some simple SQLRPGLE code that will run as an IWS webservice...