Niklas Tech Blog

I’m here going to show you how I setup a small environment for the MQWEB REST API, mainly to try it out. It is actually not much to be done to get this up and running

First choose the security settings. For this IBM provide us with four sample configurations (/<installation path>/mqserver/web/mq/samp/configuration/):

basic_registry.xml  
ldap_registry.xml  
local_os_registry.xml
no_security.xml  

Out of these I’m going to choose local_os_registry.xml because it uses the groups and users already setup on the OS. This saves me from setting up new groups and users somewhere else

Copy desired configuration to MQWEB server settings

cp local_os_registry.xml /var/mqm/web/installations/<installation name>/servers/mqweb/mqwebuser.xml 

Start MQWEB server

strmqweb

That is pretty much it. Time to test

Put message on queue

curl -k -X POST -d 'helloworld' -u user:password -H "ibm-mq-rest-csrf-token: nothing" -H "Content-Type: text/plain"  https://localhost:9443/ibmmq/rest/v1/messaging/qmgr/MYQM01/queue/MYQUEUE/message

Here I feel we need some explaining:
-k: The default SSL certificate on the MQWEB server is self-signed. This option ignores that
-X POST: Use POST for putting messages onto MQ
-d: This is the data (string) that eventually will land on the queue
-u: The OS user and password (part of the mqm group in this example)
-H: The “ibm-mq-rest-csrf-token” needs to exist as a header but can contain anything, can even be completely blank
-H: We need to set a content type for the payload (from the -d option above). Valid content types include:

text/plain;charset=utf-8
text/html;charset=utf-8
text/xml;charset=utf-8
application/json;charset=utf-8
application/xml;charset=utf-8

NOTE: if omitting the charset, utf-8 is assumed
URL: Default URL and port: host:9443/ibmmq/rest/v1/. On top of this we add the default URL for handling messages on queues: /messaging/qmgr/<queue manager name>/queue/<queue name>/message

Get messages from queue

curl -k -X DELETE -u user:password -H "ibm-mq-rest-csrf-token: nothing" https://localhost:9443/ibmmq/rest/v1/messaging/qmgr/MYQM01/queue/MYQUEUE/message

Here I believe that I only need to explain one option:
-X DELETE: When fetching messages from MQ we use the REST DELETE operation

Done!

A couple of useful commands:

 
# Stop IBM MQ REST SERVER
endmqweb

# Show status of MQWEB (will also show the base URL for MQWEB REST API)
dspmqweb

Tested on IBM MQ 9.0.5.0 and Red Hat Linux 7.5 with curl 7.29.0