Apigility Setup This example assumes a setup similar to the one described in Installing and Using Apigility on IBM i. The example repository can be found on github. Create New RPC Create a new RPC through the Apigility Admin Interface like normal. This will generate a Factory and Controller for the RPC service. Once that…
Setting Up Apigility This guide will be using the same project setup during my Apigility Entity & Mapper Tips article. The related github repo has been updated with the new source in this article. Create a Filters Class I found the best way to stay organized was to create a type of Helper Class called <ServiceName>Filters.…
Create a Simple Schema and Table To get us started, we’ll need a source of data for our service. I’m going to use IBM i DB2 for this example, since that is primarily what I work on. Below is SQL to define a simple table and populate it with some data. CREATE SCHEMA APIGILITY ;…
Download & Attach VirtualBox Guest Additions Download the appropriate version of VirtualBox Guest Additions. The latest would be VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.20 at the time this article was written. Go ahead and attach the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO as a device to the virtual machines storage. This is basically emulating a CD being inserted into our virtual machine.…
Most commands will need to be ran with super user permissions. Just prepend withsudo if any permissions errors occur. Download CentOS 7 Download the preferred version of CentOS. I suggest the “Everything” version for this tutorial. Install CentOS 7 Begin the installation process like any other Linux installation. Either through USB or Virtual Machine. Installation…
Making BASH Your Default Shell There are (at least) a couple of different ways to achieve having BASH on login. sshd_config – Globally (not recommended) This will make it so anyone that SSHs in will have BASH at login. More information can be found here Editsshd_config (usually found at/QOpenSys/QIBM/UserData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/sshd_config) to have the following: # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v…
The Problem Ideally, application development is separated into three environments: local (development), staging, and production. Staging and production would reside on the IBM i, while local is specific to each developer and would reside on the developer’s local development machine. In a perfect world, the developer would have a mock of the database on their…
Create the OAuth tables in DB2 These tables are created according to specifications from Zend Framework OAuth2. /** * Replace LIBRARY with the preferred library name. * Build OAuth tables for Apigility. * OAUTH_CLIENTS * OATUH_USERS * OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKENS * OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKENS * OAUTH_CODES * OAUTH_SCOPES * OAUTH_JWT * More details at https://github.com/zfcampus/zf-oauth2 */ /* BEGIN OAUTH_CLIENTS…
Install Apigility I find the easiest way to accomplish this on the IBM i is to use PHP itself on command line: After this is ran, Apigility will try to serve itself up. While it is successful in doing so, I have not been able to visit Apigility without errors when it is running this…
