Hi Michael, I'm very keen to see how the REST API component has been progressing. Do you think it could be added to ofbiz-framework soon so that we could get a version incorporated in the 24.x release?
One feature that I think would be useful would be to produce an access token within OFBiz's decorator screens such that the token is available for use by javascript running on a page. We might then be able to build an HTTP client delivered through ofbizutils.js (or other) which helps with making authenticated calls to the REST API. The approach of adding an access token to a rendered page was implemented in the example plugin's example-react-decorator screen using ApiTokenGenerator.groovy and ApiKey.ftl. ApiContext.tsx would then retrieve the key from the page and add it to an authorization header in a fetch call. Another feature I'm hoping for is for components to register themselves with the API at various paths, rather than the rest-api component attempting to derive api endpoints from the various services xml file. I think this would allow for a leaner api without the need to work around any legacy stuff from the service api. That being said, I imagine a lot of components would end up registering thin adapter layers to their standard services. Looking forward to seeing the new component and contributing where possible. Thanks, Dan. -- Daniel Watford
