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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories Web Serving
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 14, 2023
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit IBMI-I-2289 Return a boolean in IWS (Integrated WebService Server).

IWS should support boolean values in json body Merged

IWS's pcml format currently only supports numbers and strings. It needs to be expanded to support booleans. There's probably a fundamental type mapping problem since RPGLE doesn't natively support booleans (other than indicators). In query strings and post bodies you can accept a character value and translate from "true"/"false" into the appropriate date types but on returned data, the client system may be expecting a literal value of true/false instead of a string value of "true"/"false".

Idea priority Urgent