Hi Rahul, I guess the main reason why we need to wrap OFBiz services (especially this that involve creating & updating entity records) is that many of the OFBiz services execute other services through the ECA/SECA principle. If we were to have simple REST crud services (in essence meaning executing SQL statements against the tables in the underlying RDBMS), that would mean that no OFBiz service would be invoked and subsequently the nested services (through ECAs/SECAs) would not be executed.
Best regards, Pierre Smits *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer *Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges) since 2008* Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 6:49 PM Rahul Utkoor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jacques, > > Thanks for pointing to that issue. I had gone through the responses and > understood few of the trials made. However, I have couple of questions: > > > 1. > > In some of the mid comments people are talking about writing a wrapper > for OFBIZ services, why can’t we use it directly and extend it which is > considered to be less effort than writing everything from > scratch?(Temporary solution for the current developers) > 2. > > Since the work is still in progress, if someone wants to build REST APIs > for non-services, then what could be best way to achieve it?(As far as I > see converting non-services functionalities to services seems to be the > only possible solution, please correct me if i am wrong) > > > Similar to the approach as mentioned by Adrian > < > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4274?focusedCommentId=13031517&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13031517 > > > , we followed the below approach to write wrappers to the services. > > - > > We collected all the services and its respective parameters/attributes > and generated the api structure for each and every service > - > > We are able to smoothly use the REST APIs for the services (no > authentication integration yet) > > > We are facing the below issues while trying to create REST Wrappers for the > non-services, > > - > > Suppose, if we want to create a wrapper for finding a party / listing > parties from Party module, then we don’t have a proper service that > satisfies the requirement > - > > Currently we followed a crude approach by writing a service for it(which > is not working properly, facing some parameter matching issues, since it > involves internal calls to multiple entities) > > > We felt the above approach to be apt. Welcome feedback and comments on the > approach. > > Is it possible to automate for writing the wrappers to OFBIZ non-services? > > > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:11 PM Jacques Le Roux < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Rahul, > > > > Are you aware of the effort at > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4274 ? > > > > Thanks > > > > Jacques > > > > Le 08/04/2019 à 20:01, Rahul Utkoor a écrit : > > > Hello Smits, > > > > > > I apologise for the late reply, I was busy with my exams and projects. > > > > > > *Our Approach :* > > > We referred to the Services list provided by ofbiz and generated a > > template > > > API wrapper for the services. This wrapper is working for Post calls. > We > > > are currently working on the REST APIs and our ultimate goal is to > > > contribute back to the Community. > > > > > > *Project Git link* : > > > https://github.com/sbv-solutions-private-limited/ofbiz-framework > > > > > > You may find the wrappers written in the below link, > > > > > > https://github.com/sbv-solutions-private-limited/ofbiz-framework/blob/trunk/hot-deploy/rest/src/main/java/org/cfbiz/rest/custom/PingResource.java > > > > > > Please feel free to ask questions/queries related to our approach. > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:42 PM Pierre Smits <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Rahul, > > >> > > >> I would say that many of our (potential) adopters and contributors > would > > >> interested to learn how you have achieved the implementations of the > > REST > > >> functionalities on services. > > >> > > >> Can you explain your approach a bit more? > > >> > > >> Maybe, when explaining a bit more, this will trigger other > contributors > > to > > >> share their insights/approached to help you move forward. While at the > > same > > >> time, have the community come up with an acceptable approach to have > > such > > >> in play in the code base. > > >> > > >> > > >> Best regards, > > >> > > >> Pierre Smits > > >> > > >> *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* > > >> *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* > > >> Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer > > >> *Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without > > privileges) > > >> since 2008* > > >> Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer > > >> > > >> > > >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 1:29 PM Rahul Utkoor > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi smits, > > >>> > > >>> We are able to write the rest api's for the services(for > > adding/updating > > >>> the data) provided by ofbiz. Right now we are facing the difficulty > > with > > >>> non-service functionalities(mostly for listing and getting the data). > > >>> > > >>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:42 PM Pierre Smits <[email protected] > > > > >>> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> That would suggest a rest > > >>>> > > >>>> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 12:05 Rahul Utkoor < > [email protected] > > >>>> .invalid> > > >>>> wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>> Hi Girish, > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Thanks for the reply. > > >>>>> Yes, In our case an external system wants to interact with Ofbiz > and > > >>> get > > >>>>> information. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:49 PM Girish Vasmatkar < > > >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>> > > >>>>>> Hi Rahul > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Do you have an external system that wants to talk to OFBiz and > thus > > >>>>> require > > >>>>>> an interface/wrapper/web service to extract data from OFBiz? > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Best - > > >>>>>> Girish > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 1:24 PM Rahul Utkoor > > >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>>> Hello all, > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>>>> We are having a requirement of writing a wrapper for > > >>> listing/getting > > >>>>> the > > >>>>>>> data for the functionalities in accounting module of Ofbiz. For > > >>> some > > >>>> of > > >>>>>> the > > >>>>>>> listing functionalities, Ofbiz UI is tightly coupled with the > > >>> backend > > >>>>>>> implementation. In a crude way we can rewrite all the > > >>> functionalities > > >>>>>> using > > >>>>>>> entityquery method, but it involves lot of effort to redo it for > > >>> all > > >>>> of > > >>>>>>> them. Is there any optimal way to make use of existing methods? > > >>>>>>> Any suggestions are most welcome. > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>>>> -- > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>>>> *Thanks & Regards,* > > >>>>>>> *Rahul.* > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> -- > > >>>>> > > >>>>> *Thanks & Regards,* > > >>>>> *Rahul.* > > >>>>> > > >>>> -- > > >>>> Sent from my phone > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> > > >>> *Thanks & Regards,* > > >>> *Rahul.* > > >>> > > > > > > > > -- > > *Thanks & Regards,* > *Rahul.* >
