I am working on developing an integration with Workday. Under my initial analysis, I found that Workday provides multiple wsdls for different modules like "Human resource", "Inventory" etc. I can see this complete list at https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/operations/index.html
I am trying to understand how I get get this list progamatically in my integration so that my user can select one of the wsdls rather than typing in the full name of WSDL. Please share your thoughts on this.
You can programatically retrieve a list of all web service operations by creating a Custom Report based on the "Public Web Services" data source. The report can then be exposed as a RESTful WS for easy retrieval.
Some fields you can include in the report are: Web service, supported operations, api version, endpoint url, WSDL url, etc, etc.
This is highly customisable, in the sense that you can query the RESTful WS Report for specific versions, specific operations, etc, via Prompts / URL Params.
The report-as-a-service, supports also a variety of output formats as well as its own WSDL.
The purpose of a SOAP WSDL is to generate a client stub, i.e. a model that lets your client interact with objects exposed or consumed by the service provider. You don't interact with a WSDL at runtime - you interact with the stub. If you want to make multiple services available, you have to include each WSDL in your client application at compile time and generate their stubs. The services in a given API version do not change, so there isn't a reason to do this dynamically.
To add to the query asked, what we are trying to understand is that whether there an API call/request which we could hit to get the list of web services available to populate it on the UI to select from it.
For Example: In this link, https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/index.html, we have Absence_Management, Academic_Advising, Academic_Foundation and so on and Now, if I want it to be displayed to the end user so that He can select the webservice to be used and accordingly we could download the WSDL as to work on it.
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I’m trying to integrate a third-party tool with Jira server via REST API.
Currently we have a customized Jira used by our client with a business specific issue types.
Basically all I need is to be able to create an issue of a given type, get response (success/error) and get metadata (list of required and optional fields) for that tool via REST API.
We have a create issue page on WebUI, where user can submit his request.
But the problem is all validation logic is “smashed” between some Javascript code, Behaviours and SIL Programs Manager add-ons, AJS scripts, Jira native fields configuration etc.
So I can’t use “plain” Jira REST API directly because it creates issues without taking in account business rules of a given issue type - e.g. requires fields, one fields can have values depending on another field’s value, an attachment is a required as part of an issue etc.
My question is what is the best way to make an integration with Jira.
I want to be sure if someone will try to create an issue via REST API, the data is consistent according to the issue business rules.
I was thinking to write some "proxy" REST API, which will do the all validation needed and create (or edit) / reject the request.
We've developed a separate Jira plugin which serves some scenarios. So, I can add those API to the plugin.
Or, use Jira REST API endpoints like POST /issue (and PUT /issue/), and I have to define a new screen for it, set all required fields via standard Jira settings, set Cascading fields rules and the standard validator will check if everything is ok out-of-the box?
Sorry, I’m new to Jira and not sure if my current understanding is correct now.
Thanks
Tricky. Best to validate the data in a single place (with one set of code) before calling the create REST API. That way you can also modify the validation logic more easily over time. I think I would probably define a new REST endpoint. ScriptRunner lets you script that nowadays
I've included swagger bundle in each of my dropwizard service. I was wondering if we can run swagger independently and connect to each service so that user can have a centralised view of all services through one UI.
I'm not aware of something that lets you do that at the moment with Swagger UI specifically, but you might check out DynamicApis.com. They let you host multiple swagger documents and provide some really nice additional value for your APIs as well. They take your Swagger JSON and build you your own API portal out of them. They also have native REST API integration where you can automatically sync up your API to your portal or you can manually upload them.
Here is an example portal they have up to demonstrate how multiple APIs can be hosted and how you see them.
Here is an example of what their documentation for each API looks like. Kind of like Swagger UI++.
You can have multiple swagger instances in a single DW service. The UI, however, does not allow you to point to each of them independently. It's easy enough though to modify index.html to allow the user to select the swagger definitions that you have in the deployment.
What is the best way to create forms (textfields, checkboxes, radio buttons, ...) and handle the data after the user's input?
Just use web components as dart's web ui?
http://www.dartlang.org/articles/web-ui/
http://www.dartlang.org/docs/tutorials/web-ui/
edit: Lets imagine the following example application: I would like to create an online quiz/test.
First the user has to register
Data will be stored in a textfile or in a database
User can log in and play an online quiz or do an online test.
For that quiz/test i need to evaluate the input with the predefined correct answers
Here's a high-level answer to your question.
To handle data on the server side you can use the HttpServer class to start a web server. See this article.
To store data in a flat file you'll need to use the dart:io package to open a file and write to it. See the documentation for File.openWrite().
To store data in a database there are packages available on pub for mysql and postgresql.
There are two different ways to implement the client side. The traditional way is to use templating to generate html with the data in input elements within a form tag, and then handle the form submission in your webserver.
The modern way, that is the focus within the Dart community, is to write a single page app, which uses HttpRequest to read data from and send data to the server (usually using json).
On the client side, you could retrieve data from server (e.g. as JSON) and use that to build a form. This seems like a good fit for a web component as elements can be dynamically added based on received data.
The component would be bound to the model so you can serialize the model object to JSON on submit and send it to server on submit or just send it as standard HTML form.
The server side of the story is less clear, there are no production quality web server libraries that I am aware of, but you could take a look at DartExpress as an example, or Stream, and there are others, more or less complete. Anyway, you would have to extract the POST payload from HttpRequest (if sent as JSON) or use the form data which is also accessible via queryParameters property - please note that this is Dart:io.HttpRequest class, not Dart:html.HttpRequest, and it is available only on server side.
The mentioned server frameworks simplify this part a bit.
Using Web-UI would be a good choice. The todomvc application illustrates nicely how to dynamically capture the input from a user. Processing on the server side is wide open as far as choices go. Dart does have server side capabilities, and you could use some of the existing libraries to accomplish what you want.
Another way that you can process the information server side is to comunicate with the DB directly using a REST based web service like CouchDB. Cloudant offers such a service and allows you to communicate directly to the DB from the client, providing you can overcome the Same-Origin-Policy. There are 2 ways to do this. Enable CORS on the CouchDB instance, or host your application on the server that has the DB, which is also possible with CouchDB.
Dart serverside also supports websockets, so you can easily deliver the user provided data to the server with web sockets, and then do whatever processing you like on the serverside.
One other option I can think of would be to have the information processed and saved in the local browser. You can access the local DB or local browser file system from the Dart client, and keep everything local. For statistics, you can have the client update a web service of your choice.
I building a website with Ruby on Rails framework.
The site will contain a flash application that will interact with the rails application using web service.
My partner builds the flash application and he told me that the flash application interacts through WSDL file.
I am new to web services. I would like to know how to create the WSDL file, and how to make the interaction between the rails application and the WSDL file.
If you believe that there are better alternatives than SOAP/WDSL, I would like to hear them too.
Thanks,
Oded
Have you Googled how to build web services in Ruby? Here are a few links that come up, all addressing exactly what you want to do:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_web_services.htm
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ws-rubyrails/index.html
http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/Web-services-with-Ruby-on-Rails
How about you take a look at some of those links, and come back to us if you have further questions.
I do have one elaboration:
My partner builds the flash
application and he told me that the
flash application interacts through
WSDL file.
It sounds like your partner has an incomplete understanding of how Flash can access remote data services. Using a SOAP Web Service with a WSDL is one method, for sure, and here is some documentation on that.
A Flex / Flash application can also make standard HTTP calls, sometimes called REST Web Services. In many cases, REST Web Services will return an XML Document, but that is not required. Any data, including simple text data, can be returned from a REST Web Service.
What many people prefer to do is to use an AMF Gateway with RemoteObject. AMF is a binary format so you'll get much smaller file size transferred back and forth than the alternatives. It also provides for automatic object translation between your server side objects and client side objects. This can be a time saver in development because you don't have to parse data to turn it into something Flex can use easily. RubyAMF is one Ruby implementation of AMF.
You'll be going through more pain than you need to by using WSDL.
Instead, I recommend creating a REST interface that returns json (or xml) -- you'll find in rails it will just work.
So you'll have things like:
/books # returns a list of books. Also do Searching here
/books/1 # return the detail of a book with ID of 1
Search for "REST Rails" and you'll get examples of controllers that will return JSON and XML depending on what the client requests.
[SharePoint/MOSS 2007]
I want to access several web services (on external sites, with WSDL descriptors), and graphically display the data, using a separate web part to display each item.
The graph for each is quite simple - just a thermometer, or traffic lights (as in KPI).
I want to be able to access more detail about the data with a web click
What are the basic sharepoint components for this?
I am able to program a web part, if necessary.
(background - I've been looking through KPI, PerformancePoint, Data Connection Libraries, InfoPath, Business Data catalogs, etc. I just need a someone to tell me which are the right components for further investigation).
I think you should solve this without considering SharePoint, i.e. you should create Web Services proxies (add Service reference) in order to access the external Web Service and then create the necessary HTML to represent the result.
One this is working, you can wrap it in a Web part.
You could use the Business Data Catalog to access the Web Service, but it is really hard to use and then you'd still need some way to transform the data in order to get the graphical display. KPIs are useful if you have lists with the required information, not for external data from a Web Service. I don't see InfoPath or PerformancePoint playing any role in this case.