I have tried implementing like this to get data from SalesForce DB using the REST api,
uri= ...."/query?q=Select+Acc_Name__c+From+Account__c+where+Acc_ID__c+=+'123456'+Limit+5
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(uri);
This is the syntax i found in here
URI
/vXX.X/query/?q=SOQL query
while this works, I don't really want to expose my query like this in uri, Is there an another efficient way to achieve the same operation using REST api ?
You can't modify the way the REST API works. You can implement your own methods via an Apex Restful Web Service. This would allow you to define a method that receives the querystring via a POST (you could even encrypt it first if you wanted to).
Exposing Apex Classes as RESTful Web Services
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I'm learning REST connector in data factory , I'm trying to create a linked services with REST, but it needs to provide base URL ,I wonder where I can get this.
We can use many programe languages to build a REST Service. When you have permission to access this api, it will return a json object or json object array.
For example, using Spring to build a RESTful Web Service. In this case, http://localhost:8080/ is your base url. If your domain is localhost, you need to use self-hosted-integration-runtime to connect to your local server.
I have an external REST based API that I need to create a connection to in order to retrieve data on a regularly scheduled basis (for BI purposes). This API is fairly robust, and supports around 60 distinct endpoints. Also, this same API is used to access information across multiple client sub-domains (e.g. client1.apisource.com, client2.apisource.com, client3.apisource.com, etc.). In other words, the API endpoints are the same for each client subdomain.
So what I'm trying to figure out is whether it's possible to create a single ADF that contains a complete set of pipeline actions for each endpoint THAT uses a "dynamic" URL based on the client subdomains? In other words...what I'm trying to see if its possible to create a single ADF that can manage a dynamic list of base URLs.
I tried to parameterize the HTTP and REST connections, but this doesn't appear to Is this possible yet. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Here is an example of a Web Activity to call a REST API using parameters and expressions. The URL can be an expression like:
#concat('https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/',pipeline().parameters.SubscriptionID,'/resourceGroups/',pipeline().parameters.ResourceGroup,'/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/',pipeline().parameters.Server,'/databases/',pipeline().parameters.DW,'?api-version=2014-04-01')
I have to create 2 different websites that would use REST api to interact with a single MySQL database.
I know how to create website with forms..etc using PHP.
How would I use REST api for my websites.I searched and found out that there are libraries for android to use REST api but how to do so in case of a website ?
REST is a architectural pattern, it is not (by itself) an API. APIs can implement REST.
Just like any other API out there, you have to get the documentation for the API and then call it from your source.
Depending on what your requirements are, you may be calling it from javascript or from your PHP backend.
REST is an architecture pattern (you can read more about it at wikipedia) which aims to use HTTP verbs like PUT, POST and DELETE to execute commands against endpoints which represent a resource.
To use REST, your backend server will send normal HTTP requests to the API service; so in PHP this means using the various curl libraries to send requests.
Responses are generally in json; but they could be in any other format (or even in binary) - check with the API documentation that you have to consume.
If all you want is interacting with a REST API, then you need a HTTP client, probably cURL (PHP has a cURL lib). After that you have to check whether your API violates the HATEOAS constraint. If not, then it is called hypermedia API. In that case you have to follow hyperlinks provided by the API in the responses. If it violates the constraint, then it is called web API, and you have to build the method, URL, etc... on the client side again, so your client will break easily by any structural changes of the API. Everything else depends on the message format and the semantic annotations the API uses.
If you want to build a REST API, I strongly suggest you to learn more about the topic. First read the Fielding diessertation and check some existing solutions like HAL or Hydra+JSON-LD. Forget the tutorials. Most information available on the web about how to implement a REST API is flawed.
Can anyone tell me the difference between the REST API and APEX REST.I am new to REST concept.I am very much confused about them.
The REST API (Force.com REST API) is the generic API provided by Salesforce. On the other hand, the Apex REST API is an API written by yourself in apex to provide custom methods.
The Force.com REST API is great for things such as CRUD operations. You should write a custom Apex REST API when you want to perform more complicated actions.
REST -> architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems.
APREX REST -> Apex REST enables you to implement custom Web services in Apex and expose them through the REST architecture.
Second is used to build RESTful web services
Use the REST API most of the time. You can access your records and update them like you'd expect. But if you need to do something special, like update two records, and only have the changes saved if both updates were successful, then look at Apex REST, where you can customize what your API call does as much as you like.
More details in this interview: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/tech-pubs/2011/10/salesforce-apis-what-they-are-when-to-use-them.html
I have implemented a REST based web service and used it to access data back in MySQL database.
I am using this framework to access the json data http://code.google.com/p/json-framework/
I have no problems in getting the content from this web service, but how can I put something in the database? Should I just make a special query string and have the php code in the backend to interpret this special keyword/query string as an insert to the database?
You're looking for ASIHTTPRequest. You can use that for everything from dumping pages to submitting data via POST or FORM.
Have fun :)
POST is a HTTP method. Your web service should behave differently depending on the method used for the request, if you're implementing REST.
If you send a POST request, your web service should inspect the parameters and do what it needs to do.
What parameters you send and how is dependent on how you've written the web service. Ie. Is the web service expecting XML requests or JSON or URL parameters?