I would like to use a REST API as a data source for tableau. Is this possible in any way? The API service returns standard JSON, and I would think that would be an ideal scenario for tableau. Rather than connecting to some backend database behind the API.
Thanks
The web data connector does this and is in beta right now as noted by inox. See: https://www.tableau.com/web-data-connector
"The Web Data Connector will allow you to create a connection to almost any data that is accessible over HTTP. This can include internal web services, JSON data, REST APIs, and many other sources. It will not be supported in the initial launch of Tableau 9.0. Beta participants will be able to use a dedicated product key to continue building and testing connectors until the Web Data Connector officially launches."
Also, you can use the Extract API to create Tableau Extracts from an API: https://www.tableau.com/learn/tutorials/on-demand/extract-api-introduction
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I am trying to connect data from a PLM tool to Tableau using the REST API. I am not super familiar with the REST API, so I am unsure how to connect it to Tableau Desktop. Is it even possible to connect a REST API to Tableau Desktop? Do I need additional tools to build the connection between the API and Tableau? Thanks in advance!
Yes, it is possible to connect REST API to Tableau Desktop. And yes, you'll need additional tools to build the connection.
Steps:
Set up an ODBC connection. Visit this website for this step -> https://kb.blackbaud.com/knowledgebase/articles/Article/41081
Open Tableau Desktop and under connect to a server, select "Other Databases (ODBC)".
Connect and in the "String Extras" box, put in your SDSN, HST, and PRT information.
Choose the database that the RESP API is connected to. You can see how to do that in the REST API documentation of the site you're using.
Filter the data you want to see in Tableau and you should have your data there.
There are so many ways to make this connection and this is one of them.
Thanks!
Actually, Tableau doesn't support REST API as a data source directly. You have to use indirect ways to connect to REST API.
One way is to use Web Data Connector, BUT you have to build a web page for each REST API and paste the web page link in Web Data Connector. (I did this before and it's pretty crazy...)
Another way is to use an ETL tool that supports extracting data from API and loading it to Tableau. This way saves you lots of time although you need to pay for additional costs. (I personally recommend Acho. Its API connector is very powerful and easy-to-use)
I have to extract data from Qlik Sense through the Rest api Call hence I have explored and haven't found any solution. is it possible to do the Rest call to Qlik sense app to extract data ?
As far as I know, there is no REST API allowing to access data inside an application.
There is a Javascript and .Net SDK to use the Engine API and thus connect to data .
There is a also various REST API to manage application, streams, tasks, users...
However, if you want to get access to Qlik data, I suggest you add STORE commands in your load script to dump the tables to text or CSV files, making them easily readable after.
Qlik sense does not provide an API to expose the data in Qlik to other applications.
Because we did need this functionality (for instance to expose data from Qlik to Rapid Application Development platforms like Mendix) we developed a custom application that can help. see https://ddcgroup.com/qlik-data-extractor for more info.
With this tool, you can define the rest webservices that you need (including aggregation etc) which can be called to extract data from Qlik.
I have some tables from Postgres database to be integrated into Salesforce as external objects. I went through some video tutorials and documentations where I was recommended to use Salesforce Connect which supports providers with "OData" protocol support. Is it possible to integrate Postgres tables into Salesforce as external objects without Salesforce Connect?
Thanks.
Be careful with the phrase "external objects". To me, the use of those particular words implies the specific implementation of external data access/federation delivered with Salesforce Connect. I don't believe that there is any alternative if your goal is to create "real" external objects (named "objectname__x") within Salesforce.
There are, though, Salesforce integration solutions from the likes of Progress, Jitterbit, Mulesoft, and Informatica and others that can be used to access PostgreSQL, with varying degrees of coding being required. You won't get "external objects", but you will be able to access data residing off-cloud in a PostgreSQL database from your Salesforce system.
Hope this helps.
Currently the way to integrate data from external storages (Postgres in your case) without Salesforce Connect is implement your custom logic for synchronization using REST or SOAP API, Apex classes and triggers, Salesforce Workflows and Flows. Also you will need to implement appropriate interfaces on side of your data storage. Complexity of all these steps depends on complexity of your existing data model and infrastructure around it.
I have tried to call REST API from Mobile site. Using the following url
http://IP_Address:8091/Bucket_Name/Document_Name/
the response is "Not found"
I have refer the below link:
http://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/mobile/1.1.0/develop/references/couchbase-lite/rest-api/document/get---db---doc-/index.html#example
My question is, how can I get json response using REST api?
You are mixing two different things here.
1. Couchbase Lite - Embedded database similar idea to SQLite - just document - key/value database.
2. Couchbase server - Fully fledged enterprise noSQL\KV\Document database.
You actually have two approaches:
When you are using Couchbase Lite as your mobile app you may need Sync gateway in order to talk back to the couchbase server.
The Sync gateway deals with the online updates of your data, while couchbase Lite acts as an offline - online repository of your data.
That is the preferred way - as you have the greatest support for you app.
When using only Couchbase server - you can use an SDK to create your calls - or use some REST API available in the REST service - such as views.
http://docs.couchbase.com/admin/admin/rest-intro.html
Thanks,
Roi
I came across https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/master/community/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/graphdb/event/TransactionData.java which allows to capture data that was changed within the course of a transaction.
My application uses two data stores, postgresql and Neo4j. To revert to a consistent state upon crash/failure, I am hoping to maintain data from this event which could be useful to reconcile data between databases.
However, we are using the neo4j server REST api, and this event is available to using neo4j in embedded mode. Is it possible to get a response similar to 'created_nodes' and 'created_relationships' over rest batch commits?
The TransactionData instances are only exposed to a TransactionEventHandler. That is a component to be written in Java (or other JVM language) you can register with your graph database, either in embedded mode or when running as server. TransactionEventHandler are typically used to implement cross cutting concerns.
Access to TransactionData is not available using the REST API.