worksofliam / rpg_sdk_workshop

RPG SDK Workshop

This workshop will show you how to create an RPG SDK (a set of procedures to work with/consume a web API) from scratch.

We use these tools:

• https://ileditor.dev/ - My IDE of choice. You can use any you want (RDi, ILEditor, SEU, etc)
• https://github.com/sitemule/noxDB - The JSON parsing library. Service program is also in this repo so you can restore the save file.
  1. Copy jsonxml.pkg to IFS
  2. CPYFRMSTMF FROMSTMF('jsonxml.pkg') TOMBR('/QSYS.LIB/PUNKAPI.LIB/PACKAGE.FILE') MBROPT(*REPLACE) CVTDTA(*NONE)
  3. RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/PUNKAPI.LIB/PACKAGE.FILE') OBJ(('/QSYS.LIB/PUNKAPI.LIB/JSONXML.SRVPGM'))
• https://punkapi.com/documentation/v2 - The API we use in the workshop (parts 1-9).
• https://todo-api-example.herokuapp.com/ - The API we use in the workshop (parts 10-14)
  • The repo for this app is here: https://github.com/worksofliam/todo-api

Videos

1. Introductions
2. Setting up the environment
3. API Planning
4. Fetching the data
5. Our first test program
6. Cleanup
7. Prettier APIs
8. Error Handling
9. Get by ID
10. Intro to next section where we look at how to authentictate with JWT
11. Implementing JWT authentication
12. Fixes and Test program
13. Getting a list
14. Adding to the list