Connecting a web service to Omnis Studio

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

Good. SOAP was neither simple nor an object access protocol.

Bas, there are standard ways of modelling and documenting JSON. RAML 
<http://www.baeldung.com/raml-restful-api-modeling-language-tutorial> is 
used to model your API. Swagger 
<http://idratherbewriting.com/pubapis_swagger/> is used to document your 
API and provide an interactive console.

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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay

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On 23/03/17 07:26 PM, Mike Matthews wrote:
> Just a quick update on SOAP.  Omnis support have told us no more work is being done in v8.0, just what is left from v6.1 and I think it dies in v8.1 unless you bring it out of retirement.
>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 23 Mar 2017, at 22:18, Bastiaan Olij <bastiaan at basenlily.me> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Das,
>>
>> That is a very broad question and has much more to do with the web
>> service you chose to connect to, then with Omnis Studio.
>>
>> There are 3 obvious categories or paths if you will:
>>
>> 1) Using the good old web enabler commands for TCP and HTTP to connect
>> to a web service. This should allow you to talk to just about anything
>> but it also means you'll be constructing the commands and parsing the
>> results yourself. Lots of extra work depending on how complex the web
>> service is. There are one or two limitations here in what Omnis offers
>> but you can always go down the route of Kellys TCPIP external if you run
>> into those.
>>
>> 2) Using SOAP if the web service supports this. This has been around for
>> some time and if memory serves me correct, has native support since
>> Omnis Studio 4. It has been awhile since I last used it but there is a
>> wizard or support tool in Omnis that lets you enter the address of the
>> WSDL file that describes the service and Omnis will add a number of
>> objects to your library that you can use to communicate with the
>> service. I do vaguely remember that this requires a working JAVA
>> environment but I could be wrong, I can't remember if only the server
>> required that (you can turn Omnis into a SOAP server) or if you also
>> needed that when Omnis is the client
>>
>> 3) Using RESTful if the web service support this. This is the new black
>> at the moment and is especially popular now that JSON is used as the
>> format for the data being exchanged as this makes it a really nice fit
>> for all those Javascript programmers.
>> I personally also really like the way most RESTful services are
>> structured. What I miss a little is that there is a lot of wild growth
>> in the way the services are documented, there isn't a single standard
>> like WSDL in SOAP that you can use to get details about a service so
>> you are a bit at the mercy of how well the people who have implemented
>> their web services have done their jobs.
>> Having Omnis Studio talk to a web service over REST is easy in Omnis
>> Studio 8, I haven't played with it too much but there again is a nice
>> interface that lets you configure the interface and you end up with a
>> number of objects with methods you can call to interact with the web
>> service.
>> If you're on Studio 6 the JSON parsing logic is all there and you can
>> use plain old HTTP commands to build stuff yourself, a little more work
>> but not all that difficult.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bas
>>
>>> On 24/03/2017 5:40 AM, Das Goravani wrote:
>>>
>>> Basically, how does it work to connect a web service to Omnis studio
>>>
>>> A short description of "Basically how it’s done" is all I seek.
>>>
>>> Something that describes the handles in omnis that make it work
>>>
>>> How do you grab Omnis’s attention from an outside process in a lower level language is sought
>>>
>>> Not the details, I’m sure that would drain you, but just a high level description of how it goes
>>>
>>> The goal would be to grab omnis, and put data into some fields and save the record
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>> -- 
>> Kindest Regards,
>>
>> Bastiaan Olij
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