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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories Web Serving
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 17, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Integrated Web Services Server native VARCHAR support

VARCHAR parameters are not natively supported in the Integrated Web Services Server and are instead broken out into structures.

In the case of incoming parameters on a RESTful web service the sender cannot simply send the character string; they must instead send a more complicated structure with the length and then the character string.

Since all strings coming through on a XML/JSon request are of variable character length it would be nice if the requirement of the structure and length could be removed from implementation of the web service interface.


Use Case:

PCML Snippet:
<struct name="INPUT_DATA" outputsize="2097156" usage="inputoutput">
<data name="length" type="int" length="4" precision="16" usage="inherit" />
<data name="string" type="char" length="length" usage="inherit" />
</struct>

JSON VARCHAR Struct - Now:
{
"INPUT_DATA" : { "length" : 23, "string" : "Please make this easier" }
}

JSON VARCHAR native - Desired:
{
"INPUT_DATA" : "Please make this easier"
}


Idea priority Low

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