RE: http_url_post spped

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Thanks for your advice. One more question related to HTTP_persist_post that
> I did not look into yet. The connection is established in a multitude of
> interactive jobs, each user has to interactively validate the shipper in
> NextLinx database. Would HTTP_persist_post keep the connection open across
> all this jobs?

No, not unless you take pains to make it work that way. HTTPAPI is a 
normal RPG program, it runs in the job that calls it, just like any other 
program.

If you want to share a single connection across many jobs, you'd have to 
create a mever-ending program in a batch job that waits for data on data 
queues (or whatever comm media you prefer) and uses that data to make the 
HTTP requests, then sends back the results via the data queue.

I don't know if that would improve performance or not, I think you'd have 
to experiment.

> If yes, when is the connection closed?

When you use the persist features, you have to explicitly open & close the 
connection by calling the http_persist_open() and http_persist_close() 
functions from HTTPAPI.

For validating a shipper, it looks like you're writing XML to stream file, 
then sending that stream file.  I wonder if it'd be faster to just create 
the XML in a variable in your program and post that? You might also 
consider using the Expat XML parsing routines that come with HTTPAPI, 
because it will actually parse the XML in memory as it's being received 
over the wire. Seems like that would be a little faster than saving the 
data to disk, and reading it back in a separate parser.

EXAMPLE16 demonstrates constructing the XML in memory and parsing it via 
HTTPAPI.  Might be worth a look...
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