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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Web Serving
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 19, 2023

Allow booleans to be returned in an IWS service response

You cannot currently return a true or a false in a json response. If you want a similar thing you would have to return either a 0 or 1 or a string representation "true" or "false". It would be helpful to be able to return a real boolean to make it easier for people consuming the API in a language which has boolean support.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    May 3, 2023
    IBM Understand this request and will consider as part of a future enhancement though no commitment is made nor implied.
  • Guest
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    Jan 19, 2023

    I didn't notice, but an idea has already been posted for this https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-2289

    This idea can be closed.