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Jaymer

Lets test the new 8.1 REST functions - help share your knowledge with the "rest" of us.

EDITED: I'm going to start a new post. Lots of this was due to buggy REST implementation. Not worth reading thru.

Jaymer

Trying to follow some examples on this page:
https://www.soapui.org/rest-testing/getting-started.html

Getting this error setting up a REST Intelligent Object

1) Is questionable what to use for the "BASE URL"
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml OR
http://maps.googleapis.com/
(and with or without trailing "/" does it matter?)

2) From the pic, I used this as the parameter string:
?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=false
(is it supposed to have the "?" in front?)

Seems pretty basic - just no idea how to get this to work.
Downloaded that Soap program from them and got a result within 5 minutes.

BenHayat

Unfortunately, the documentation is very nil on this new feature, so I don't know how support expects us to test a NEW feature with almost no guidelines and examples.

I searched all the documents under "REST" word and most of the stuff I found were either old or words that had "REST" in it.

Jaymer

I keep getting the "Singleton" error - I don't know what to do.
I was getting stopped just by trying to add 1 service - there's a lot more complicated screen once you get to OAUTH.

Since there is a pulldown of OAUTH examples, and none of it makes much sense, I'm now onto my 3rd test.
I'm trying TRELLO, since I had an account.
(I didn't want to screw around with my facebook, twitter, etc. account that I regularly use).

I got my TRELLO API KEY and followed their docs to get the secret.
Then, according to the UserGuide, you need to have a LIRU and SystemSettings field to accept the return key.

but even after doing all that, I still get a SINGLETON error when saving.

Jaymer

BenHayat wrote
Unfortunately, the documentation is very nil on this new feature, so I don't know how support expects us to test a NEW feature with almost no guidelines and examples.

Well, thats the purpose of THIS thread. Hopefully, Vlad or someone else can post here and we can move forward with focused examples.

customaware

+1000

PointsWell

The Singleton message is not an error it is a nota bene reminder that you can only have one instance of the BO when running.

What I have done is prefaced the calling of the service with a process step IF NOT EXISTS THEN CREATE.

Also I don't think your parameters don't need a ? in them, that is added when the two are brought together.

What I have been doing so far is to create a BO that is just parameters ServiceName.Parameters

Then I parse the parameters into that and set that as the REST Service Parameters

I've been practicing with the OpenWeather API
api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk

So the parameters BO looks like this, where CITY is a BO and the Key for the API is kept in SystemSettings

CREATE tWeather WITH tWeather.Parameter='q='+City.Name+','+City.Country+SystemSettings.KeyWeather

It has been working successfully to submit the request and I get a result back but haven't worked out the JSON to put it back into the CITY BO.

From the Server Output:

Calling REST URL http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,Uk&APPID=KEYREDACTED  .Parameter string is q=London,Uk&APPID=KEYREDACTED
REST Service returned:{"coord":{"lon":-0.13,"lat":51.51},"weather":[{"id":500,"main":"Rain","description":"light rain","icon":"10n"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":278.55,"pressure":992,"humidity":86,"temp_min":277.15,"temp_max":280.15},"visibility":10000,"wind":{"speed":6.7,"deg":250},"clouds":{"all":20},"dt":1520490300,"sys":{"type":1,"id":5168,"message":0.0091,"country":"GB","sunrise":1520490598,"sunset":1520531603},"id":2643743,"name":"London","cod":200}

UnionSystems

Sean, page 167 of 8.1 User Guide says AwareIM will parse the reply.

For JSON and XML replies you can get Aware IM to automatically parse the contents of the reply into attributes of some object.  Aware IM will create a new instance of such object and populate its attributes from the values of the corresponding fields in the reply. By default Aware IM will try to find an attribute with exactly the same name as in the JSON/XML attribute definition, but you can also provide your own mapping between names in JSON/XML and the corresponding Aware IM attribute names.

PointsWell

Yeah I have it going into some BOs now, but I am getting a random error that I don't understand

So JSON goes into:

Weather:
Weather.coords
Weather.main
Weather.weather

WeatherCoords:
WeatherCoords.lat
WeatherCoords.lon

WeatherMain:
WeatherMain.temp
WeatherMain.temp_min
WeatherMain.temp_max

Etc etc
But the server console is showing an Queue error

FAULT: ERROR: org.openadaptor.adaptor.jms.JMSSink - txnCommit() failed with JMS Queue/Topic PublishException: org.openadaptor.adaptor.jms.PublishException: org.openadaptor.adaptor.jms.JMSPublisher - commit() called when not initialized
ERROR: transaction commit failed (will call rollback) , ERROR: org.openadaptor.adaptor.jms.JMSSink - txnCommit() failed with JMS Queue/Topic PublishException: org.openadaptor.adaptor.jms.PublishException: org.openadaptor.adaptor.jms.JMSPublisher - commit() called when not initialized

But the data is there

PointsWell

So I've got my first REST call to work.

I've posted the BSV and some instructions at https://forum.awareim.com/viewtopic.php?p=46511#p46511

Jaymer

Problems with OAuth REST calls

I tried TRELLO, with no luck, then Yahoo.
Initially, I was getting this error:

but thats no longer an issue.

I get a reply from Yahoo saying its not happy with OAuth.
Turns out that this [Aware included] setup string to get a Request Token is not valid.

There is a mysterious double quote at the end, PLUS the URL says its moved or outdated.
So there's no way for the AIM mechanism to get authorized.
Will have to dig around to try and find what that call is supposed to be.

PointsWell

Good source of APIs

https://any-api.com

https://www.programmableweb.com/category/all/apis

Jaymer

Given that the Yahoo API URL was incorrect, I went back to Trello.
I get a response now... but its a parser error.
And in the Tomcat output window, this:

So after 3 hours down the drain tonight, I'm going to bed.
Sean got his Weather example to work, but it didn't use any OAuth.
We will crack the code eventually.

Jaymer

THREAD CLOSED
See new topic: https://forum.awareim.com/d/10261/2#p46874

Lots of this was due to buggy REST implementation. Not worth reading thru.

BenHayat

Just put a [CLOSED] in front of the title.