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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 20, 2023

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DATA-INTO support of NULL values

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The API's used to implement DATA-INTO are great. However missing the possibility to provide NULL values. RPG supports that a variable can have the special value of NULL but the the API does not allow to transfer this special case.


Especially while dealing JSON this is a must have.


Example:

When using


QrnDiReportValue (handle , value , valuelen);


will fail is the value ( in this case) is a NULL pointer.


Suggestion 1:


QrnDiReportValue (handle , NULL , 0);


Suggestion 2:


QrnDiReportNull (handle);


Both solution would work equally well, but suggestion 2 requires changing the prototypes hower, allows it to be backwards compatible, since the method is not available in older releases of the implementation and the API client can monitor for that and make a fall-back.




Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     May 31, 2023
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