I think that this could be a good starting point. I'm not an expert of the BI area but I'm wondering if exists a standard to execute queries for a report.
Piergiorgio 2013/2/23 Karl Wright <[email protected]> > Hi Folks, > > The ManifoldCF REST-style API has been missing support for reports. > I'm intending to add it for ManifoldCF 1.2 (see CONNECTORS-63). But > what stopped me in the past has been the query-like inputs for the > report. > > Our current REST implementation is nice in that there are NO extra > inputs above and beyond what is provided in the URI path. For > instance: > > /repositoryconnections - gets a list of connections > /repositoryconnections/myconnection - gets the connection "myconnection" > > With reports, there is no longer a simple solution, however. There is > instead a number of query parameters, e.g. an activity list, or a > regexp on document identifiers. And yet the verb is still clearly > "GET". > > So, my proposal to solve this problem is to use the URL's query > parameters as our query parameters. So, for instance: > > GET > /repositoryconnectionhistory/myconnection?report=simple&activity=fetch&activity=ingest > > Comments? Objections? > > Karl > -- Piergiorgio Lucidi http://www.open4dev.com
