I have created a RESTful service currently hosted on http://mydomain:8000, whereas my mobile application is on http://mydomain:80. Unfortunately this is causing problems.
The RESTful service is running in Django REST Framework, whereas the mobile application is in Sencha Touch 2.
I attempted on using Ext.data.JsonP.request but, this only allows GET where as i need POST.
Is it possible somehow to use JsonP in Ext.Ajax.request?
After spending a few hours searching more around i came to this solution: https://github.com/OttoYiu/django-cors-headers
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I just started learning Django and wanted to make an application with API (probably REST) endpoints so that other developers can use it as well (like GitHub API), and I could connect it to my react app and android app. I want my backend to be on a different server and do not want to build my react app integrated with Django backend using the REST Framework.
Can anyone just give me the general idea of what I need to do?
P.S. Sorry in advance if my question sounds silly, I am still new to backend.
Creating a Django REST API should be your first step. This is pretty simple if you already have a Django app running, and will allow your React app or Android app to connect and access data.
Authentication is a step beyond. You may want to look into implementing authentication on the server you will be hosting your back end on. You can also read through this article for some guidance on implementing auth on the DRF side.
Best of luck!
First off all you can start from this.
https://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/
my issue is about web services and all the stuff around that. I've developed a java web app, using hibernate (to connect with a mysql DB), jsf and primefaces. The only thing I have to show to the user is the index.xhtml which will search a data in a database. All of this is running on my PC with my local apache server.
But a doubt comes to my mind when I wonder if I deploy this web app in the apache server of the company, do we need something such as a web service o something like that o they just can access to the index.xhtml and start the queries?
Sorry for this but I'm totally new repesct web services, web app, web server and all these stuff.
PS. So, when do we use web services? and web server?
Thanks in advance :)
A web service is typically used as an API that might be integrated into another application. For example, if you have a way to accept payment information. You could make that a web service that would let some other application (e.g. an auction site) make calls into your web service to do some work.
Think of it a bit like a DLL that is accessible on the web. It won't have an interface, it is a collection of methods that either return data or execute some code. It will not return a UI.
So when you use a web service would be a similar question to when you need to break code out into a separate assembly.
On your specific question above, you would not need a web service, if your web application is doing everything you need it to do, then all you need is a web application.
I have a CakePHP based web application deployed on Apache (LAMP stack). Now I am doing a Web Services API using bottlePy that will expose services to be consumed by an Android application. The thing is both the applications will be working of the same MySql DB tables and reading/writing to the same. The reason its been done this way is because the CakaPHP based application is already available and was done a while back. Now we have a need to do an Android app and hence need to expose a Web Services API and since I am more comfortable with Python I would rather use. But before I dive deep in this direction I wanted to get answer to the following:
Can I have both the CakePHP web app and BottlePy based Web Services API served from the same Apache server? If not what will be an alternate?
Will two different apps accessing the same MySQL DB cause any issues in terms of locks, data integrity etc?
Anything else I need to be careful about?
So, I have implemented it anyways and it has been working great. I guess that answers the question, that yes it can be done.
I have both cakephp and bottlepy app served from same apache server.
I havent seen any issues and data gets written from both cakephp web app and bottlepy web api connected to android app.
Getting cakephp and bottlepy served from same apache server was a bit tricky but I got it working. I am not a webserver expert so dont know if the problems I faced were trivial or I solved something difficult. In either case it is working. If you face similar issues, let me know and I will post a detailed reply on how I did the setup.
I'm developing asp.net mvc web application that calls third party web services.
I'm not sure about web services but looks like that they are java web services. They work perfect when I call them from windows console application or run my site under asp.net development server. But when I host my site under IIS 7.5 (I check it under Windows 7 32x and Windows Web Server 64x) performance is degraded in 10 time.
Could anybody suggest me with settings which I should check or anything else?
The best idea that I have, it is using Reversed Proxy for matching data that pass.
I've tired to use Fiddler 2 in this way. But what a pity I have trouble because web services are hosted via https.
Somebody has idea how to solve this?
I'm developing an application for Blackberry that consumes .NET Web Services that are hosted on our public web server.
We are using JSON as our data interchange format.
So far we have been testing the application and everything is working fine but there is one big thing to solve: the .NET web services are public. If you go to the service URL: http://www.whatever.com/myservice.asmx you can assign values to the parameteres and invoke the service.
Obviously we don't want to have them publicly available and we want them to be secure.
I've been reading some questions here at stackoverflow but I haven't found a good answer.
I was thinking of adding a "password" parameter to every web service that I have and there sending a password to the server so that it can verify that it's the Blackberry trying to consume the service and not some spammer. That password would go as a String in each JSON request that the Blackberry does.
Another thing that is important to mention is that we have a simple web hosting solution from GoDaddy so our hosting is shared, we don't have full control on the computer.
Is this a correct approach?
For better protection depending on content importance you can use checksums or encryption methods.
You can use bouncycastle cryptography API http://www.bouncycastle.org/. This is free and good.
This can be used in both C# web service and blackberry application because it supports both C# and Java.