Hi,
We are using PB 12.6 Classic.
The Corporation has a large web application with front end in Java Server Pages in JBOSS and NVO components deployed to EAS. Since EAS will be discontinued/out of maintenance this year, I have to find the best way to revamp the NVOs and deploy them as .NET web services into IIS.
The trouble is that the EAS target has a bunch of NVOs passing back and forth a structure with elements as arrays, not an array of structures, which causes a non compatible data type when compiled in the web target. The structure that causes the error is kind of:
Structure ERROR_EAS:
string error_msg[]
string error_code[]
etc, etc
I found an example in one of Bruce Armstrong articles that may work in my situation causing less changes in the NVOs code
Power Point file "webservices.pptx" and URL
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjcu5Pb5ovLAhXBpR4KHSSNDF0QFgh…
However, there is no mention in the article about the definition of the structures "s_employee" and "s_employees" and the code is still giving a invalid data type compiler error. I tried several combinations between the structures but I still get a compiler error.
So my questions are:
1. Since a web service method cannot return an array of structures, how should be a structure definition to be returned by the method containing a result set, as in Bruce's Power Point file?
2. Pass a structure by reference to a method that has an argument as an array of structures compiles in the web target but gives an compiler error in the PB Client to consume the service: function with mismatch arguments
Another option could be to create .NET assemblies from the NVOs and consume them from the JSP front end, but at this point I did not try it yet.
Any help will be very appreciated.
Thank you,
Paulo
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