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Quick note... this version does not trap an error that occurs when no payload is provided. It's late and I forgot to test that.

I've been working almost exclusively in APIs for a little over a year now, and this forum has been an indispensable source of helpful information (and tools!). I just finished writing a program that is triggered by an endpoint on our HTTP server, reads the standard input payload, writes that payload ...

Please disregard... I found it!

https://www.scottklement.com/base64/

I am trying to use the following directives in an RPGLE program.
I have the latest LIBHTTP and YAJL libraries in my library list, but the compiler is not finding base64_h.

What a I missing?

Thanks, Scott! I'm not a network guy, and neither is the other guy (IT Manager) in our small 2-man shop. So I had not even thought about the firewall. I believe this will get us where we need to go. Thanks again!

Hi Scott,

I finally got my program working, but now I am having another challenge.

I know this is not a YAJL or HTTPAPI issue, but I have created an HTTP Server, following your guidance in the DIY section of the "Providing Web Services on IBM i" presentation, to run this program as an API. This is ...

I have changed my program to receive the filter parameters in a JSON payload rather than passing the filters in the URI.

Now I am having trouble with the STDOUT process. I am not receiving everything that was loaded by the program.

Here is my program:


**free
/copy qfunctdefn,@copyright ...

One little slash! No, that was not intentional. Thanks for your help!

EDIT: Would I be better off to forget about passing the parameters in the URI and instead put them in a JSON request file and process it as standard input? If so, which presentations can I peruse to get me down that path?
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I am trying to pass four parameters to the program by following the ...

I am making my first attempt at creating a web service based on the DIY section of the article "Providing RPG Web Services on IBM i".

So far I have:

1) Created a new HTTP Server called RESTFUL
2) Created a new IBM i library called RESTFUL
3) Created a SQLRPGLE program in the RESTFUL library called ...