I have External Application where all the contacts are stored, where all the CRUD operation will happen in External Application, we have to replicate same in RightNow frequently, we have exposed the Web Service in External Application, I am new to Web service regarding RightNow perspective, so I am not aware where to write code to Pull all the Contact from external webserver in RightNow. it would be great help if any one provide document or reference for this.
If I understand your question correctly, this can be easily done in RightNow in two ways-
Manually: If this is one time work and u can do it manually then use the RightNow Import Wizard. Get all your contacts exported in the specific CSV format and then use the wizard to upload all records in one go.
Automation: If this "On The Go" functionality then you can use the RightNow SOAP/REST services to create the contact whenever it is getting created/updated in the third party System. For this you can write the scripts to trigger on the events of your third party system. Below is the document link. http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/servicecs_gs/CXSVC/api-contacts.html
Hope that helps!!
Thanks,
Abhishek
Related
The idea is to call a method from a website(in php) to my application (in Grails). The application will serve data in json format.
The website and the application are hosted in two different servers. The website is on Yahoo and the application is on Rackspace.
Now, I want to create a web service in my Grails application which serves list of cities in json format.
City Class
class City {
String name
String code
}
How do i write the web service method?
Try the grails jaxrs plugin (https://github.com/krasserm/grails-jaxrs) which will do excactly what you want without any hassle.
Simply install it, create a Resource object with the introduced create-resource command and create and annotate the methods as you wish. all other things are managed by the plugin so you don't have to worry about Controller or UrlMapping...
You need only the annotation #Resource(uri='/cities') on your domain and call the url/cities.json (but, its'n RESTful)
You will want to use a few tools, first you will create a controller that deals with the requests and pushes them off to your service layer.
You can use URL Mappings to make it more RESTFul check out the doc that way all the http methods will be mapped to actions in your controller.
Also if you will be doing a fair bit of json I would recomend starting with the gson plugin it has a fuller feature set then the built in JSON support.
The link from the comment above is a great resource to read as well.
I have found that I most of the time want to support the accept header as well in which case you will need to update your config with the following code. See withFormat doc for more info.
grails.mime.use.accept.header = true
I have a requirement to kickoff a workflow which is in salesforce.com thorugh web service from UNIX box. Can any one suggest me options or guide lines to achive this scenario?
I don't think you can just "kick off workflows". You'll have to perform an insert or update of records in Salesforce that will satisfy the workflow's entry criteria.
There's a Java tool called Data Loader for your basic data manipulation activities (you can download it from your own production org)
and it can be scripted for scheduled runs, has config file where you can store user's password in secure way etc. Check out the pdf guide for more ("Command Line Quick Start" chapter)
So I don't think you really need a webservice call...
Unless I misunderstood and you're talking about calling an Apex class' method that has "webservice" keyword and it will somehow perform the updates?
In that case you'll need to download the WSDL file generated for this class (Setup->Develop->Classes) and well, consume it in language of your choice (Java, PHP, Python... this link will help, steps aren't too different), then do your command line magic?
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Integration has tons of resources for you :)
Salesforce uses SOAP for their web service. They don't have restful web services now. Just request them to give the wsdl file.
Use this wsdl file to generate the java code. After that get their webService url so that you can proceed with your data pulling
This link may help you..
http://salesforce-walker.blogspot.in/2011/12/to-access-salesforce-data-from-java-we.html
Hope this helps
I have built a website in django framework. It has a lot of features such as blog, discussion forum, basically there are lots of ways users can interact. I have built a basic notification framework where a user gets notified when somebody comments on their blog, or answers their question in the forum.
Since the notifications are stored in db, new notifications are displayed only when a page refresh is done. I would like to make it real time using some push server using something like long polling technique.
I have come across NowJS which seems to be pretty handy for this, but in all the examples that are given I could not see any example where there was any interaction with the database. In all the cases there was some information sent by one client and it was displayed to one or more clients.
What I actually want to do is to call a function using NowJS, and make it go to sleep until a new notification is added in the database. When a new notifications comes in the server responds back with the notification and a new request is done immediately.
I can figure out all other parts except how to access the database from Node server that is used by NowJS. Any help or guidance is appreciated.
Either:
Have your node.js server make an http call to the Django server via something like a REST api to get info back
Google for a database connector for node.js - I found enough evidence for a MySQL one, and rumours of a PostgreSQL one. Note this won't get you access to the Django DB API, so you'll have to work out all your related queries and craft your SQL by hand (make sure Bobby Tables doesn't bother you: http://www.xkcd.com/327)
Re-implement the NowJS protocol so that you can write a django server for it, keeping the same JS client code on the clients... but then you may as wel.....
...use django-socketio http://blog.jupo.org/2011/08/13/real-time-web-apps-with-django-and-websockets/
This is quite a concept idea. I would like to create a website that can be extend by different programmer a bit "a la facebook"
Let's me explain i want to develop a very simple core application that for example would store images and i want to develop or allow external developer to develop web app that would be able to act on the image i can take this example of an OS that would store files and you can "install" different program for example to view the files or edit.
How can i reproduce the model in the Web / cloud plateform using API ?
I hope this question make sense to any body.
Thank you by advance
Web Services. Try looking up REST and SOAP.
The Semantic Web is trying to solve this by publishing structured data with common ontologies.
See this example, describing the user's photos as RDF, using the FOAF ontology:
http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/201/describing-in-a-foaf-file-assets-of-a-user-photo-album-video-album-etc
The Semantic Overflow website is an excelent resource to find out more about the semantic web in general, and how creating webservices that use a common set of interfaces can allow a greater reach, because tools don't have to be specific to a website.
I will be developing a mobile app (iPhone) and a web based app (Django) soon. For the mobile app I will be creating a REST api (most likely using Django) to send data back and forth from phone to server.
When I comes time to create the web based version does it make sense to just create it as any other client of the api. In other words both the mobile app and the web app will get there data from an external API over HTTP. Or should the web based app have direct access to the database that the api is using and just get its data that way?
Break it into three "sections". The first uses a Python API to manipulate the database. The second interfaces your REST API with your Python API. The third talks web and uses the Python API.
I would create the web application to serve the API to the mobile client. That is, give the web based application direct access to the database. This will simplify your XML / JSON RESTful resource access.
I would say no, don't use the API for the HTML version. If you design your Django well, you can end up with less code than using the API for the HTML version. You also get to retain the ability to have a web designer work with the Django templates whenever the boss wants the spelling changed on something.
I'd suggest trying to define a base app for your iPhone app to interface with, and then extend that within a second app for the HTML version. App1 would have all of your models (including business logic), and a views.py for processing the data to/from the iPhone. Then create App2 which uses App1.models, but creates its own views.py. With any luck, you'll find yourself with the ability to change nothing but the template used to render the output, so you can reuse your views by passing the template as an argument.
For example:
App1.views:
def list(request, template="list.json"):
list = Model.objects.filter(deleted=False).filter(user=request.user)
list.reverse()
## Lots of other logic to work on the list.
return render_to_response(template, {list: list,})
App2.views:
def list(request, template="list.html"):
return App1.views.list(request, template=template)
I think the answer to this question has changed over time. A year ago when asked it was probably still too much hassle to do this, but now I'd definitely say yes - using your API as the basis is the smart thing to do. As Web sites use more HTML5 and Mobile apps get smarter it really makes sense to have all your "UIs" read/writing from the same API layer. This will give you much more flexibility in the future.