Re: Question on Posting data and getting a return value.

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gerald,

I suppose I could add that capability to HTTPAPI.  I don't understand 
why the procedure call wouldn't work for you, though.  Seems like a very 
simple solution...

Adding string capability would mean having three new routines:

http_get_string()
http_post_string()
http_post_string2()

They would output their results to a string variable.  But what type of 
variable should they use?  unicode?  alpha?  varying unicode? varying 
alpha?  just a raw pointer?   How big should it be?  16383 would be the 
largest size unicode available prior to IBM i 6.1, and that hardly seems 
big enough for most applications.   Or should I use *VARSIZE and OPDESC? 
   It's not as easy as it sounds, is it?

should it translate the data to EBCDIC?  Or keep it as-is?  If it 
translates it, how would you tell it which translation table to use?  Or 
should it figure it out from the content-type?

Seems to me that the problem with the procedure-based approach is that 
you want HTTPAPI to do the work for you, you don't want to write the 
code yourself.  That being the case, how far, exactly should it go?


On 11/19/2010 12:47 PM, Gerald Magnuson wrote:
>
>     I have a "simple" project that isn't very simple for me...
>
>     I have httpapi going for actual SOAP calls, but I now need
>
>     To build a program for a post to a page (10 fields), and when it
>     submits
>
>     It returns a number...
>
>
>     I look at example2,  and that outputs to a file in the ifs (which does
>     work...),
>
>     And then I see example5, and that outputs to a procedure. Both of
>     these seem
>
>     like more than I need.
>
>
>     Is there a method that just puts the return value in a variable?
>
>
>     (I'm asked why can't I just pass the big old url with the post
>     variables concatenated  on it)
>
>
>
>
>
>     Gerald Magnuson
>
>     Supervisor, System i Adminstration&  Development
>
>     IBM Certified Specialist, i5 Administration
>
>     The Knapheide Manufacturing Company
>
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>
>     (217) 592-5291
>
>
>
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