On 10 February 2015 at 07:33, Lechner Andreas <[email protected]>
wrote:
> hi,
>
> thank you Dan, and Martin also.
>
> The hint with the reference of DeliGroup was useful.
>
>
Glad you have it sorted.
> I had to add "I_" before the ObjectID to get it working with my
> postgresql database.
>
>
That "I_" prefix is the way in which the RO viewer encodes an integer. For
a long it would be "L_" etc.
That said, strictly speaking you should consider the URL as opaque The
value to provide is that of the "links[self].href" in the representation of
the entity you want to reference.
Cheers
Dan
> Here my working result:
>
> {
> "deliverableName": {"value": "NAME_ABC5"},
> "deliverableDescription": {"value": "DESC_ABC5"},
> "deliGroup": {"value": {"href": "
> http://localhost:8080/restful/objects/DeliGroup/I_3"}}
> }
>
> br
> Andreas
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Dan Haywood" <[email protected]>
> An: "users" <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 8. Februar 2015 12:52:07
> Betreff: Re: Questions for the Rest Interface for DomainService
>
> On 5 February 2015 at 14:22, Lechner Andreas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > public class DeliverableService {
> >
> >
> > @NotContributed
> > @MemberOrder(sequence = "2")
> > @Named("Create New Deliverable")
> > public Deliverable createNew(final @Named("DeliverableName")
> > String deliverableName,
> > final @Named("DeliverableDescription") String
> > deliverableDescription,
> > final @Named("DeliGroup") DeliGroup deliGroup
> > ) {
> >
> > }
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > now I want to call this service over the rest interface.
> > I think the URL should be
> >
> >
> http://localhost:8080/restful/services/DeliverableService/actions/createNew/invoke
> >
> >
> > I tried to test it over the "RESTClient" Plugin for Firefox with
> following
> > JSON String
> >
> > JSON String:
> > {
> > "deliverableName": {"value": "NAME_ABC"},
> > "deliverableDescription": {"value": "DESC_ABC"},
> > "deliGroup": {
> > "historyId": { "value": "1"},
> > "deliGroupName": { "value": "Factored" }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > After removing the "deliGroup" part in DomainService class, and in the
> > JSON String, it was working.
> > {
> > "deliverableName": {"value": "NAME_ABC"},
> > "deliverableDescription": {"value": "DESC_ABC"}
> > }
> >
> > How has the JSON String to look?
> >
> >
>
> The Restful Objects spec [1] explains how to submit arguments that are
> references to entity types (such as "DeliGroup"); basically you send a
> "value.href" pointing to the object; see section 2.9.2.1
>
> Something like:
>
> {
> "deliverableName": {"value": "NAME_ABC"},
> "deliverableDescription": {"value": "DESC_ABC"},
> "deliGroup": { "value": { "href": "
> http://localhost:8080/restful/objects/DeliGroup/1"; } }
> }
>
> As for submitting this JSON, it is described in section 2.10; basically:
> * if the action has "safe" semantics, ie invoked via HTTP GET, then this
> string is URL encoded and appended to the end of the URL (after the ?).
> * if the action has "Idempotent" semantics (invoked via HTTP PUT) or
> non-idempotent semantics (invoked via HTTP POST) then the JSON string is
> simply the body of the request.
>
> HTH
> Dan
>
> [1] http://restfulobjects.org/download/
>
