I am using Azure Mobile Services. I have a TableController<Photo>. In the controller, I can retrieve a single photo by id successfully. No problems using the following method:
//works
public SingleResult<Photo> GetPhoto(string id)
{
return Lookup(id);
}
However, since the photo is stored in Azure storage as a private blob, I want to tack on the SAS (Shared access signature) to allow my mobile client direct read access to the Azure blob for a given period of time.
In the GetPhoto call, I am successfully retrieving the SAS using the CloudBlobClient (removed for brevity).
I have defined a property on Photo called SasQueryString. I want to set it on the <Photo> object retrieved using Lookup(id) but the data returned from Lookup(id) is an IQueryable, not my strongly typed Photo object.
//! INCORRECT ! -- because photoResult is IQueryable
public SingleResult<Photo> GetPhoto(string id)
{
SingleResult<Photo> photoResult = Lookup(id);
//SingleResult<Photo> does not contain SasQueryString
photoResult.SasQueryString = "SAS from CloudBlobClient";
return photoResult;
}
If I do this, I can set the SasQueryString:
Photo photoResult = (Photo)Lookup(id).Queryable.FirstOrDefault<Photo>();
photoResult.SasQueryString = "SAS from CloudBlobClient";
However, I'm not sure how to return this strongly typed object as a SingleResult<Photo>.
//! INCORRECT ! -- this doesn't work because the Create method expects an IQueryable
return SingleResult<Photo>.Create(photoResult);
I've also tried this but photoResult is anIQueryable so I can't set the strongly typed SasQueryString value this way either.
//! INCORRECT !
var photoResult = Lookup(id).Queryable.Select(x => new Photo()
{
Id = x.Id,
TheOtherFields = x.TheOtherFields
});
photoResult.SasQueryString = "SAS from CloudBlobClient";
I am obviously missing something crucial here but it seems like I should be able to combine the lookup for the photo and the request for the SAS into a single call that returns my photo data after tacking on the SAS ticket...
== UPDATE ==
I found the following example: Creating a Leaderboard App with Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend. It is doing something similar to what I want to do but I have yet to try it.
// GET tables/PlayerRank/48D68C86-6EA6-4C25-AA33-223FC9A27959
public SingleResult<PlayerRankDto> GetPlayerRank(string id)
{
var result = Lookup(id).Queryable.Select(x => new PlayerRankDto()
{
Id = x.Id,
PlayerName = x.Player.Name,
Score = x.Score,
Rank = x.Rank
});
return SingleResult<PlayerRankDto>.Create(result);
}
which modified for my situation might look like the following:
public SingleResult<Photo> GetPhoto(string id)
{
var result = Lookup(id).Queryable.Select(x => new Photo()
{
Id = x.Id,
ImageUri = x.ImageUri,
SasQueryString = GetSas(id),
});
return SingleResult<PlayerRankDto>.Create(result);
}
You are not doing it the right way:
When you get the a list of Photos or a Photo it will give the data from storage in database and SasQueryString is not storaged, only the Url from blob storage should be;
You only provide SasQueryString in Insert or Update methods, because you need to define the url or update the url if need;
Note: Get methods do not change data
When a client app insert a photo the backend should do:
create the url for the photo and generate the SasQueryString
save the photo, with the url create, in database
before return the photo set the SasQueryString
client app upload the image to blob using the SasQueryString and url you provided
Why you have a Photo and a Controller for Photo???
If you have an object "Car" that has an image, it should have "car.Url" and a class similar to BlobItem.cs and you can see BlobStorageExtensions.cs.
Note: BlobItem.cs will be a not mapped property, I do not want save it on database.
I need to create a sample with it and the nugets...
Related
I am trying to get user activity data via his client id using Google Analytics api. Take a look at the below image:
Now highlighted text is users client id, it could be user id too, and when I trying to get it via Google's playground, I get the correct response and activity data which is required, like:
and this is the response:
which is required and OK.
but I want this data via API, and have searched the web to get it, but nothing helped me.
Here is sample code Google showing i.e.
function getReport($analytics) {
// Replace with your view ID, for example XXXX.
$VIEW_ID = "<REPLACE_WITH_VIEW_ID>";
// Create the DateRange object.
$dateRange = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_DateRange();
$dateRange->setStartDate("7daysAgo");
$dateRange->setEndDate("today");
// Create the Metrics object.
$sessions = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_Metric();
$sessions->setExpression("ga:sessions");
$sessions->setAlias("sessions");
// Create the ReportRequest object.
$request = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_ReportRequest();
$request->setViewId($VIEW_ID);
$request->setDateRanges($dateRange);
$request->setMetrics(array($sessions));
$body = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_GetReportsRequest();
$body->setReportRequests( array( $request) );
return $analytics->reports->batchGet( $body );
}
I do found a class for adding user to request i.e.
$user = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_User();
$user->setType("CLIENT_ID");
$user->setUserId("660467279.1539972080");
but this class Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_ReportRequest which accepts conditions/filters for query does not have such method to accept user object.
How can I achieve this?
You should use this function: $analytics->userActivity->search().
$search = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_SearchUserActivityRequest();
$search->setViewId($VIEW_ID); // Google Analytics View ID
$dateRange = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_DateRange();
$dateRange->setStartDate("7daysAgo");
$dateRange->setEndDate("today");
$search->setDateRange($dateRange);
$user = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_User();
$user->setType("USER_ID"); // or CLIENT_ID if you are not using custom USER ID views
$user->setUserId($user_id); // The actual user's ID as stored in your DB passed to GA
$search->setPageSize(10); // Number of results you want to pull
$search->setUser($user);
return $analytics->userActivity->search($search); // Perform the search query.
Alternatively you can also pass the params to search() like:
$params = [
'metrics' => //Your comma separated desired metrics
'dimmensions' => //Your comma separated custom dimmentions
]
return $analytics->userActivity->search($search, $params);
I have installed the IS3/MR/IDM combination and everything is working fine. What I need to do now is make the the logged in user (ID, Name etc) available to all my MVC controllers so the obvious choice is to create a base controller so all others controllers inherit from it.
Could anyone advise if this is the best way to achieve this and perhaps provide some sample code?
Assuming you are already successfully authenticating against Identity Server 3, you should be all set already. If you look in the CallApiController you'll find this method
// GET: CallApi/UserCredentials
public async Task<ActionResult> UserCredentials()
{
var user = User as ClaimsPrincipal;
var token = user.FindFirst("access_token").Value;
var result = await CallApi(token);
ViewBag.Json = result;
return View("ShowApiResult");
}
the user variable should already contain claims for the user's name, Id and such. So
var id = user.FindFirst(Constants.ClaimTypes.Subject).Value;
var firstName = user.FindFirst(Constants.ClaimTypes.GivenName).Value;
var middleName = user.FindFirst(Constants.ClaimTypes.MiddleName).Value;
var lastName = user.FindFirst(Constants.ClaimTypes.LastName).Value;
Of course, that all assumes that you've got that information in your store of user information and I'm not checking for the errors that will occur if they are not there.
I have never done it before and now when the need arise, things are not working.
I have to send an ID to delete a DB record with RESTful service. Here is the code I am trying:
<cfhttp url="http://127.0.0.1:8500/rest/test/something" method="DELETE" port="8500" result="qryRes1">
<cfhttpparam type="body" value="36"/>
</cfhttp>
and in the REST function
remote any function someName() httpmethod="DELETE"{
var testID = ToString(getHTTPRequestData().content);
//make db call to delete
return testid;
}
The result comes as blank [empty string]. I am not able to retrieve the sent value in function. What I am missing?
Edit: one slightly different but related to CF rest, is it necessary to convert query to an array before sending it back to client? Directly serializing won't solve the purpose same way?
you may want to take a look at deleteUser() in http://www.anujgakhar.com/2012/02/20/using-rest-services-in-coldfusion-10/ as an example of how to support DELETE in REST API style.
remote any function deleteUser(numeric userid restargsource="Path") httpmethod="DELETE" restpath="{userid}"
{
var response = "";
var qry = new Query();
var userQry = "";
qry.setSQl("delete from tbluser where id = :userid");
qry.addParam(name="userid", value="#arguments.userid#", cfsqltype="cf_sql_numeric");
userQry = qry.execute().getPrefix();
if(userQry.recordcount)
{
response = "User Deleted";
} else {
throw(type="Restsample.UserNotFoundError", errorCode='404', detail='User not found');
}
return response;
}
As for the 2nd part of your question, it'd be best to first turn a query into a array of structs first unless you're using CF11 which does it for you. See: http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2014/5/8/ColdFusion-11s-new-Struct-format-for-JSON-and-how-to-use-it-in-ColdFusion-10
The default JSON structure for query in CF 8 to 10 were designed for <cfgrid> in ColdFusion on top of Adobe's discontinued Spry framework.
I am trying to update the bookmark count field with the SDK but have not had any success yet.
Can somebody tell me what classes I need to instantiate to do something similar to the following link:
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/464
Note:
The link demonstrates how to set the bookmark count and delete it. I would like to be able to do the same with the SDK, any help would be appreciated.
To do this, first you need to get you app's access token:
private string GetAppAccessToken() {
var fbSettings = FacebookWebContext.Current.Settings;
var accessTokenUrl = String.Format("{0}oauth/access_token?client_id={1}&client_secret={2}&grant_type=client_credentials",
"https://graph.facebook.com/", fbSettings.AppId, fbSettings.AppSecret);
// the response is in the form: access_token=foo
var accessTokenKeyValue = HttpHelpers.HttpGetRequest(accessTokenUrl);
return accessTokenKeyValue.Split('=')[1];
}
A couple of things to note about the method above:
I'm using the .Net HttpWebRequest instead of the Facebook C# SDK to grab the app access_token because (as of version 5.011 RC1) the SDK throws a SerializationException. It seems that the SDK is expecting a JSON response from Facebook, but Facebook returns the access token in the form: access_token=some_value (which is not valid JSON).
HttpHelpers.HttpGetRequest simply uses .Net's HttpWebRequest. You can just as well use WebClient, but whatever you choose, you ultimately want to make this http request:
GET https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials HTTP/1.1
Host: graph.facebook.com
Now that you have a method to retrieve the app access_token, you can generate an app request as follows (here I use the Facebook C# SDK):
public string GenerateAppRequest(string fbUserId) {
var appAccessToken = GetAppAccessToken();
var client = new FacebookClient(appAccessToken);
dynamic parameters = new ExpandoObject();
parameters.message = "Test: Action is required";
parameters.data = "Custom Data Here";
string id = client.Post(String.Format("{0}/apprequests", fbUserId), parameters);
return id;
}
Similarly, you can retrieve all of a user's app requests as follows:
Note: you probably don't want to return "dynamic", but I used it here for simplicity.
public dynamic GetAppRequests(string fbUserId) {
var appAccessToken = GetAppAccessToken();
var client = new FacebookClient(appAccessToken);
dynamic result = client.Get(String.Format("{0}/apprequests", fbUserId));
return result;
}
I hope this helps.
I am building a REST API for my project. The API for getting a given user's INFO is:
api.com/users/[USER-ID]
I would like to also allow the client to pass in a list of user IDs. How can I construct the API so that it is RESTful and takes in a list of user ID's?
If you are passing all your parameters on the URL, then probably comma separated values would be the best choice. Then you would have an URL template like the following:
api.com/users?id=id1,id2,id3,id4,id5
api.com/users?id=id1,id2,id3,id4,id5
api.com/users?ids[]=id1&ids[]=id2&ids[]=id3&ids[]=id4&ids[]=id5
IMO, above calls does not looks RESTful, however these are quick and efficient workaround (y). But length of the URL is limited by webserver, eg tomcat.
RESTful attempt:
POST http://example.com/api/batchtask
[
{
method : "GET",
headers : [..],
url : "/users/id1"
},
{
method : "GET",
headers : [..],
url : "/users/id2"
}
]
Server will reply URI of newly created batchtask resource.
201 Created
Location: "http://example.com/api/batchtask/1254"
Now client can fetch batch response or task progress by polling
GET http://example.com/api/batchtask/1254
This is how others attempted to solve this issue:
Google Drive
Facebook
Microsoft
Subbu Allamaraju
I find another way of doing the same thing by using #PathParam. Here is the code sample.
#GET
#Path("data/xml/{Ids}")
#Produces("application/xml")
public Object getData(#PathParam("zrssIds") String Ids)
{
System.out.println("zrssIds = " + Ids);
//Here you need to use String tokenizer to make the array from the string.
}
Call the service by using following url.
http://localhost:8080/MyServices/resources/cm/data/xml/12,13,56,76
where
http://localhost:8080/[War File Name]/[Servlet Mapping]/[Class Path]/data/xml/12,13,56,76
As much as I prefer this approach:-
api.com/users?id=id1,id2,id3,id4,id5
The correct way is
api.com/users?ids[]=id1&ids[]=id2&ids[]=id3&ids[]=id4&ids[]=id5
or
api.com/users?ids=id1&ids=id2&ids=id3&ids=id4&ids=id5
This is how rack does it. This is how php does it. This is how node does it as well...
There seems to be a few ways to achieve this. I'd like to offer how I solve it:
GET /users/<id>[,id,...]
It does have limitation on the amount of ids that can be specified because of URI-length limits - which I find a good thing as to avoid abuse of the endpoint.
I prefer to use path parameters for IDs and keep querystring params dedicated to filters. It maintains RESTful-ness by ensuring the document responding at the URI can still be considered a resource and could still be cached (although there are some hoops to jump to cache it effectively).
I'm interested in comments in my hunt for the ideal solution to this form :)
You can build a Rest API or a restful project using ASP.NET MVC and return data as a JSON.
An example controller function would be:
public JsonpResult GetUsers(string userIds)
{
var values = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<int>>(userIds);
var users = _userRepository.GetAllUsersByIds(userIds);
var collection = users.Select(user => new { id = user.Id, fullname = user.FirstName +" "+ user.LastName });
var result = new { users = collection };
return this.Jsonp(result);
}
public IQueryable<User> GetAllUsersByIds(List<int> ids)
{
return _db.Users.Where(c=> ids.Contains(c.Id));
}
Then you just call the GetUsers function via a regular AJAX function supplying the array of Ids(in this case I am using jQuery stringify to send the array as string and dematerialize it back in the controller but you can just send the array of ints and receive it as an array of int's in the controller). I've build an entire Restful API using ASP.NET MVC that returns the data as cross domain json and that can be used from any app. That of course if you can use ASP.NET MVC.
function GetUsers()
{
var link = '<%= ResolveUrl("~")%>users?callback=?';
var userIds = [];
$('#multiselect :selected').each(function (i, selected) {
userIds[i] = $(selected).val();
});
$.ajax({
url: link,
traditional: true,
data: { 'userIds': JSON.stringify(userIds) },
dataType: "jsonp",
jsonpCallback: "refreshUsers"
});
}