Cast Iron Adapter vs http adapter - ibm-mobilefirst

Im trying to find out what does the cast iron adapter give you that you cant achieve with a regular http adapter, they seem to be the same.
Cant find any documentation that gives any specific additional functionality..

The Cast Iron adapter offers nothing that can't be achieved with an HTTP Adapter. I think it just makes it a bit more convenient to add a header or something along those lines.

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How to write custom connector for Facebook Presto?

I have setup Presto with mysql connector enabled.
Now I want to write my own connector for a special type of data source.
Custom connector for SQLAlchemy is done. But this time, I am facing dozens of Java classes. What base classes can be used as good starting point? Which interfaces must be implemented? Maybe RawFile connector?
Thank you in advance.
See the developer documentation: https://prestodb.io/docs/current/develop/connectors.html. The example HTTP connector is a good starting point.
You need to implement ConnectorFactory, Connector, ConnectorMetadata,
ConnectorSplitManager, ConnectorHandleResolver, and either ConnectorRecordSetProvider or ConnectorPageSourceProvider at the minimum, other classes may be needed depending on what you want to do.

How can I cosume a GET REST call and mapping to a java bean (object) through Apache Camel?

I am new in apache camel. I want to do a GET REST call to get data and then I want to mapping these data to my Java bean. How can I do that with camel? I want to do it in a spring MVC web application.
I know how to do it with RestTemplate for example, but I want to use apache camel.
I've checked this documentation http://camel.apache.org/cxfrs.html but still I don't know how to set up for accomplishing this.
Please if you can provide some examples will be great.
There are a few different options. I'll walk through one...
First, define your rest configuration with bindingMode=auto
restConfiguration()
.component("jetty").host("0.0.0.0").port(9000)
.bindingMode(RestBindingMode.auto);
Next, when you define your particular rest service, specify a type (this is the type of the incoming body:
rest("/")
.put("/A/{subpath1}/{subpath2}")
.type(MyPojo.class)
.to("direct:XYZ");
That's it! The unmarshalling will be magical ;)
Alternatively, you can unmarshal things yourself.
If you'd like to see a working example of the above, check out this program: it has a main() to test it. https://github.com/DariusX/CamelSandbox/blob/master/CamelSandbox/src/main/java/com/zerses/camelsandbox/rest/RestConsumerBindingTest.java

WCF Web API DateTimeOffset Problems

I am using WCF Web API Preview 6 with its inbuilt Test Client to request a resource by Id. The object returns with all its data except for the ‘CreateDate’ and ‘LastModifiedDate’ properties which are of type DateTimeOffset and are empty. I have tried setting the values manually by calling DateTimeOffset.UtcNow and DateTimeOffset.Now and although the values are set on the object they never make it through to the other end in the response.
I have also tested this by changing my property types to DateTime and manually setting their values by using DateTime.Now and everything works fine and I get what looks like a DateTimeOffset value.
<CreateDate>2011-12-13T16:15:47.4269538+00:00</CreateDate>
<LastModifiedDate>2011-12-13T16:15:47.4269538+00:00</LastModifiedDate>
Does anybody know if there is a problem with the use of the DateTimeOffset type in Preview 6 or is it something I am doing wrong? I have had a similar problem with filtering the fields using oData (see SO question)
I have also submitted this bug report to the WCF Web API codeplex site on the filtering issue. However that was over two weeks ago and haven’t had any response.
After many hours of testing and debugging I am running out of options on this one! So if anybody out there can provide me with some helpful hints it would be much appreciated.
It's not a Web API issue, it's Microsoft serialization issue. The XmlSerializer does not handle DateTimeOffset. I believe it has the same issue with TimeSpan.
Just implement IXMLSerializable on your object and handle it yourself.
See here How can I XML Serialize a DateTimeOffset Property?

Is it possible to implement a redirector / reverse proxy using RequestInterceptor from WCF REST Starter kit

I am attempting to implement a reverse proxy using the RequestInterceptor from WCF REST starter kit. I am able to set the basic header properties and configure the calls. I am getting stuck with the following aspects:
Returning an appropriate response - my webservice can return text+xml, image or json. I am not able to send the appropriate response type. The Message.CreateMessage overloads are all SOAP aligned i.e. they accept only Xml constructs, so I am not able to send either JSON or image streams. I need to convert them into XElements - I am definitely doing something wrong here.
I also want the reverse proxy to be functioning well in the presence of cookies, gzip/deflate and SSL.
Based on the above requirements, do you think it makes sense to do this using REST starter kit? The Requestinterceptor was fairly easy to plug into, however the rest of the code is driving me nuts.
There is a mapping between both JSON and arbitrary binary content to XML which is used in messages for WCF (see some examples at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2011/04/19/wcf-extensibility-message-inspectors.aspx), so you can use Message.CreateMessage to create non-XML messages as well.
Having said that, it's really not intuitive to do that in WCF as of now. The new libraries in the WCF Web API - http://wcf.codeplex.com - provide a very nice way of intercepting / redirecting / bypassing the WCF pipeline especifically for HTTP messages. Also, it support multiple formats in a native way (i.e., without need to do some mapping to XML).

DataTable not accepted by svcutil - WCF Service

I'm having very strange issue with my WCF Service Proxy client generated by "svcutil.exe" . My WCF Service works very fine if I don't have a function that returns DataTable. As soon as I add a method that returns a DataTable the client generated by svcutil.exe is behaving very strangely. The Interface is no longer found and client is not able to call the service. But if I add as a Service Reference its working very smoothly. I know its not a good habit to use DataTable as a return type but I need to. I cannot use the Service Reference :-( Any idea why its behaving or what I'm missing!!!
Have a look at the DataTableSurrogate class. It is used by the SyncFramework for serialization and really easy to use.
MSDN DataTableSurrogate
You shouldn't really serialize datasets, instead you should use datamodels and keep anything to do with datasets, tables, readers etc on your backend & in the business layer.
But.. if you want to do so you need to add the following "include" in svcutil, which is causing your issue. (Tells to reuse the types defined in System.Data.dll and not generate them in the proxy)
/r:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Data.dll