Submitted by duncanc on Tue, 07/09/2013 - 15:15
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Hi,

Do you support using the like keyword for webservice input parameters?

When I define an input variable as like a numeric database field, the program fails compilation, as the ReqXmlGetValue() call doesn't get wrapped in a num()

"The types of the right and left hand side do not match in the EVAL operation."

Thanks,
Craig

Niels Liisberg

Wed, 07/10/2013 - 10:06

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Hi Craig;

 

I can see you are already deep under the covers how the IceBreak SOAP pre-compiler works ... I’m impressed...

The you maybe also can figure out that this pre-compiler has no chance to know how the final definition of your variables end up since this is a job for the RPGLE compiler, which runs after the IceBreak pre-compiler.

So unfortunately, you has to "hard"-define the soap interface which again might not be to bad: This is the definition for the out-side-world, so you can use what ever data type needed out there and the map that data-type / convert it to the internal type used in RPG-land ( which can be defined by a LIKE statement)  with a simple EVAL statement.   

You can also use "complex-types" which is defined as external data structure - which again is physical or logical file definition.

 

Regards 

 

Niels