Webrun node with lawson-ios servlets

Hello,

I am attempting to build a flow to upload comments to the POLINE table. Previously the CGI writeattach.exe program would have been used, but now on 10 support is telling me I need to use the lawson-ios servlets.

Haven't found much documentation on this and what I have found is actually incorrect or referencing the wrong detail for the AddAttachment action...

I am using a WebRun node with these details below, but it is throwing the error:

Activity WebRun5510: Error evaluating expression: WorkUnit

Web program: /lawson-ios/action/AddAttachment
Method: POST
Post String:
<ACTION>
<ATTACHMENT dataArea="<!_configuration.main.Classic.dataArea>" fileName="POLINE" indexName="PLISET1" attachmentCategory="C" attachmentType="D" K1="<!QryCompany>"
K2="<!QryPONumber>" K3="0" K4="" K5="1">
<ATTACHMENT-NAME>Delivery Comment</ATTACHMENT-NAME>
<ATTACHMENT-TEXT><!QryItemDcomment>]]></ATTACHMENT-TEXT>
</ATTACHMENT>
</ACTION>

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rmbell

We are on 10, and still use the cgi/writeattach.exe, but this error sounds like an error when it is run locally. Are you testing locally, or are you uploading and running?

unknown

I write comments to REQHEADER using your method. Here is a screen shot. Do you have 'Content Type' set to 'text/xml'? I think I originally had an issue caused by that but I'm not sure it returned an error or just didn't work.

rmbell

REQHEADER is where we are posting these comments as well. We have ours set for application/xml, screenshot above.

lrjurgen

Is there a way I can run this from a URL in the browser?

I'm getting an odd security error:

2017-11-08 09:14:08,764 ERROR [WebContainer : 5] [ ] [SYSENV ] [AuthenticationFilter] Authentication Manager returned null request

com.lawson.ios.security.IosSecurityException: SECURITY_ERROR

lrjurgen

I was able to get this to work. Thank you all for your suggestions/help.

I was using the field "Success string" and that is what it was erring on. Once I removed that I found that the comments were indeed being added!

russel-cornelson

Just an FYI to anyone out there still using cgi-lawson/writeattach.exe

The old cgi programs are deprecated and are no longer tested; I highly recommend anyone using these in business critical process flows to re-write them to use the lawson-ios/action equivalents.

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