ScreenInputCallback (Web property)
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Screen input callback function (Web class)
[Introduced in Model 204 7.6]
The WebScreenInputCallback property is the property that contains the method that is called after a 3270 screen is received from a client via Janus Web Legacy Support and before the HTTP response is converted into a Read Screen response.
Syntax
%currentWebScreenCallback = %(Web):ScreenInputCallback %(Web):ScreenInputCallback = newWebScreenCallback
Syntax terms
| %webScreenCallback | WebScreenCallback object |
|---|---|
| %(Web) | The class name in parentheses denotes a shared method. ScreenInputCallback can also be invoked via a Web object variable, which may be Null. |
Usage notes
- The ScreenInputCallback function is called with no parameters. The function can examine incoming content by retrieving the data with the $Web_Input_Content function. Unlike ScreenOutputCallback, however, it cannot modify the incoming data. The incoming data can be either HTTP form-encoded data or MML (for Janus Web Legacy XML Support. The ScreenOutputCallback function can also examine request header parameters, including the URL.
- If the ScreenInputCallback returns a False or a null, an exception will be thrown before the page is sent to the client.
- The ScreenInputCallback can, of course, also throw an exception.
- ScreenInputCallback has no effect on non-web threads and has virtually no overhead on non-web threads.
- There can only be one ScreenInputCallback active in any request and a ScreenInputCallback is only active for the life of the request.
Examples
The following example checks for a URL parameter that indicates a web service request and throws an exception if it is found:
local function checker is boolean if $web_url_parm('webService') eq 'true' then return false end if return true end function %(web):screenInputCallback = checker ...