I want to create a product feed in opencart. But I have problem, where I can't understand how can I periodically once in 3 hours update that feed.
Is there any examples or tutorials how to create automatic processes?
Because the solution what I am thinking of is to create controller witch updates feed upon execution -> create unix or winx cron-job, but as I scroll trough internet those feed extensions doesn't use those...
The XML feeds could be created in two general ways:
have a service under specific URL that when hit will create the very up to date XML dynamicaly
have a service that is manualy run at certain time that creates a static XML feed that is then accessed and read
I guess that You are asking about the second case while mixing the first case in.
To answer Your question - You would need to use the second case thus have a controller that creates a static XML feed file saved somewhere on the server. The action of that controller will then be called via crontab to update the XML file (or just to throw the old one away and create a new one).
I do not see any problem here... Do You?
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I've been playing around with IBM API Connect Test and Monitor (looks like a free to use rival to Postman) and would like to create an integration test (a test with multiple steps).
Looking at the example APIs it seems like it's possible, e.g. /api/examples/retail/products returns a list of products and /api/examples/retail/product (singular) looks up information on each of the products. However I can't work out how to connect the calls together. Is this definitely possible and if so how do I construct the test?
It certainly is possible to create an integration test and I can try to talk you through the steps using the example API you mentioned.
create a test in the normal way, go into "Compose" and then you may as well use the wizard option to choose "I got this, start from scratch"
Add a request and choose GET, then specify https://us-east.apitest.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/app/api/examples/retail/products as the URL. Set the variable field to something like "products_data" or whatever you like. Save that request by clicking the tick button.
Add another request and choose "Each", set the expression to be the content of the variable you just defined, e.g. products_data.content.products. This will create a loop you can nest other requests inside. Again save and close with the tick button.
Add another request, this time a "Set (variable)". The name can be just id or whatever you like. Set the mode to string, and the value to ${_1}. Click on the tick to close and then use the mouse to drag the variable piece so it's nested under the "for each" loop.
Add one last GET request where the URL is the single item endpoint, e.g. https://us-east.apitest.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/app/api/examples/retail/product. Inside Query Params, add the id query parameter and select "Variable" as the value, referencing id (the variable we just declared in step 4). Save and close the request and drag it into the for loop as well, underneath the variable.
Now you can run the test and it should work, generating multiple calls to the single product endpoint.
This will also work for login methods where you post to a sign-in page and obtain a session token, then use it for a set of other requests against secure endpoints.
Great question - integration testing is a powerful mechanism to simulate an actual customers interaction with your API vs. testing a single endpoint.
Here is a 2-part tutorial series that walks you through an example in detail:
Part 1: https://medium.com/apitest/how-to-never-go-hungry-again-ad0a18453fc
Part 2: https://medium.com/apitest/dessert-how-to-never-go-hungry-with-apis-3fd804515364
Hope this helps! Learn more about the product here: http://ibm.biz/apitest
We wanted to index our app contents (dynamic) in search engines and don't have web application. I got to know about branch Firebase App Indexing feature which seems to be perfect match for us however I am unable to understand following even after going through documentation :
Our content(coupons/offers) keeps changing every minute and hence our data is highly dynamic. How can we index all of our data existing + data which keeps getting added in our DB on regular interval.
How does whole thing works as in do we need to create Branch Universal object & branch links for all the content there in our db & if yes how can we do it incrementally rather than doing it whole thing again.
Do we need to use some API for links/object generation which we can trigger via cron jobs to generate objects & links for all the data there in the DB once daily.
If I understood documentation correctly once links/objects are created branch will automatically create internal sitemap & submit it for indexing to google without us to worrying about it right?
Unfortunately, you cannot index content directly from your DB. The best way to go about this is to have a reference to the content that you'd like to index on the app and create Branch Universal Objects to automatically index the content. For instance, whenever a user applies the offer/coupon, you will have a reference to the coupon/offer on the app and you can create a Branch Universal Object for the coupon/offer to be indexed.
Yes, you will need to create Branch Universal Objects for the Firebase App Indexing to work. One way to do it would be to create Branch Universal Object for every content that you users view. For instance, you can place the code snippet to create Branch Universal Objects on the viewDidLoad() method of offers/coupons page of your app. Thay way, all the offers/coupons viewed by your users will automatically be indexed.
No, we do not provide an API for object generation.
Yes, once you create Branch Universal Objects on your app, your app will be included in our nightly job to automatically generate sitemaps. These sitemaps can be scraped by Google, and all of the included links can then be indexed. Please note that Branch can only submit the sitemap to be scraped by Google. Once the sitemap is submitted, it is really beyond Branch's control to have Google scrape your content.
I can import Comma Separated Values (CSV) data through the admin pages, into most models. This process handles the external IDs so that the data can be added to or amended as appropriate in later CSV imports. This is a manial action.
Through the API, the same records can be created and amended, and external IDs can be set. This, however, requires a lot of the logic that would otherwise be handled by the CSV importer to be coded by hand, in the external application that uses the API to push in data. Pushing data through the API can be automated.
Is there a way the API can be used (so no changes need to be made to code within Odoo) to push CSV data (so the logic for insert/update/relationships/external IDs/ etc. is handled by Odoo)? This would be a kind of hybrid approach, and I am trying to avoid the need to create import modules within Odoo.
Edit: the "external ID" is often called the "XML ID". I think it is a terminology that has stuck from earlier versions of OpenERP, rather than having anything specific to do with XML.
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This page describes a load() function that pushes CSV-like data through a pipeline to load it into the system:
http://openerp-server.readthedocs.org/en/latest/06_misc_import.html
I can't see how to translate the summary on that page into an operation through the API, if indeed that is possible. I'm guessing I will need the interface (entry point), model, method (load(), probably), and some additional parameters, but the details are beyond me.
The answer is kind of "yes".
The load() method can be used against any model to load data. This method takes data in the same structure as a CSV file would provide.
The first parameter is an array of field names, like the column headings on a CSV import.
The second parameter is an array of records. Each record is an array of values matching each field.
The API will return a list of errors where they are catered for by OpenERP. Many errors, however, just result in database exceptions on OpenERP and so need to be picked up as an API failure. This is largely because the OpenERP API is not designed as a generic API, but as a part of the GUI, and so the data sent to the API is very much bound to the current state of the application through that GUI. In other words, invalid data will seldom find its way to the API using the OpenERP GUI.
I have wrapped the loader functionality, catching errors and exceptions, in my PHP OpenERP API library here:
https://github.com/academe/openerpapi/blob/master/src/App/Loader.php
Hopefully that will be useful to others too.
I think the answer is "no".
However, this technique has been explained to me:
Create a module with little in it but CSV files for importing.
Install the module.
When a new CSV file needs to be imported, transfer it into the module (FTP or similar).
Once transferred, run the update() method for the module. This can be done through the API.
The update method will scan and load all the CSV files set up within the module. Care needs to be taken to make sure only one upload/update transaction will be run at any time.
I'll post additional details here when I have got this working, or will happily accept an alternate answer if there is a better way to handle this.
I have the need to add a licence field to the APIs published by the API manager.
It does not seems to be any extension point beyond the api.rxt file in the resource folder.
If I modify the file and run the application the carbon app correctly show the added field, but nor the publishe nor the store are able to get the field and there is no way to get it also with REST APIs since it calls a method of a class that (in later versions) outputted fields positionally.
Is it possible to add the field, without running the risk of crashing the API Manager?
Which is the correct way?
Thanks
This change cannot be done without modifying the code. When an API is created from the Publisher app, it gets stored in the registry. The api.txt you modified, only defines the structure of this stored artifact. It may add a new field to the artifact, but to correctly populate that field, you need to modify several methods in APIProviderHostObject and APIProviderImpl + several Jaggery scripts.
So, I have a bunch of HTML is being stored in a SQLite database, and they link back and forth amongst themselves. When a user clicks to follow a link, that request needs to be serviced by pulling the appropriate HTML out of the database. This could result in needing to load images, which are also being stored in the database (this is a future thing; there are no images yet, but I'd like to be able to use them). I've looked through the WebKit documentation, but can't quite figure out how to make this happen. I've mostly looked at WebFrameLoadDelegate and WebResourceLoadDelegate, but I didn't see one that would let me catch the request, grab the appropriate content, and then send that in a response.
Ideas? I'm pretty new to Objective-C and Cocoa, but I think I'm mostly getting the hang of things.
How do the pages which are stored in the database link to each other? It is probably easiest if they use some sort of customer URL scheme to start with.
The approach I would use is to implement
-webView:resource:willSendRequest:redirectResponse:fromDataSource:
in your resource load delegate. If the request is for a resource that is actually located in your database, return a new[1] NSURLRequest which uses a custom URL protocol which points to the database resource:
x-my-scheme:///table/row
[1] Unless you are already linking amongst your resources with the custom URL scheme - then you can skip this step.
Then, implement a custom NSURLProtocol for x-my-scheme which knows how to retrieve the data from the database. The PictureBrowser sample gives a simple example of how this is done.