ILEastic

ILEastic is

• made for IBM i (7.2+)
• a web server (tah tah apache)
• router

It can

• Serve static or dynamic content
• Handle different HTTP methods
• Make extending your RPG easy-peasy

Installation

One. Download

git clone https://github.com/sitemule/ILEastic.git

Two. Compile (using GNU Make, available via yum)

cd ILEastic
gmake

Three. Build & run an example (from 5250)

addlible ileastic
cd 'ilastic'
CRTBNDRPG PGM(DEMO2) SRCSTMF('./examples/demo2.rpgle')
SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(DEMO02)) JOB(ILEASTIC2) JOBQ(QSYSNOMAX) ALWMLTTHD(*YES) 

Four. Enjoy

Pro tips

• Check out the documentation
• il_getRequestResource(request) to get the endpoint.
• il_getRequestMethod(request) to get the HTTP method.
• il_getContent(request) to get the request body.
• noxDB to parse and generate JSON.
• apug can be used as a templating engine.