I am writing a REST WCF Service, and have it working for connections from a C# client, but am having issues with connecting via a Delphi 2009 client. The problem I have is specifically with a PUT request, which looks (for the moment) as below. It expects an XML request, containing the document's objects.
[WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "Document/{id}", Method = "PUT", RequestFormat=WebMessageFormat.Xml)]
public void UpdateDocument (string id, Document document)
{
Document doc = document;
// this should update or something!
Console.WriteLine(doc.Id);
}
When I try and call this via my Delphi client (as shown below), I get a 'Bad Request'. Oddly if I send an empty document, the request is received, but obviously has no data.
...
msg := '<?xml version="1.0"?>' +
'<Document>' +
'<Id>123456788888</Id>' +
'</Document>';
XMLDocument1.LoadFromXML(msg);
xmlStream := TMemoryStream.Create;
idHttp1.Request.ContentType := 'application/xml';
XMLDocument1.SaveToStream(xmlStream);
url := 'http://localhost:50435/service1/Document/12345678';
result := idHttp1.Put(url, xmlStream);
ShowMessage (result);
...
Any ideas, as I am a bit lost now!
Thanks
The mapping of the URI to server method is not correct. According to default mapping a PUT request will invoke AcceptDocument method, and a POST request will invoke UpdateDocument method.
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/REST
Also passing a TStream as parameter is also possibility for difficulties. Is it possible for you to use JSON? I am not sure Delphi 2009 has support for JSON though.
Edit:
quote from Delphi documentation:
by default, a prefix of 'update' is assigned to any method invoked
with POST. Similarly, a prefix of 'cancel' is used for DELETE
requests, and a prefix of 'accept' is used for PUT requests. This
prefixing can be avoided by putting quotation marks around the method
name
Above quote applies to Delphi. Maybe also for WCF.
As per my comment above, installing Fiddler made me look at the actual page that the webservice outputs, this helpfully has example XML and json structures. I was missing the namespace for the object, so I guess the WCF end didn't know what to translate, changing the message to the following made it work:
msg := '<?xml version="1.0"?>' +
'<Document xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Contracts.Contracts">' +
'<Id>123456788888</Id>' +
'</Document>';
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A parse server cloud function is defined via
Parse.Cloud.define("hello", function(request, response) {..});
on the response, I can call response.success(X) and response.error(Y), and that sets the http response code and the body of the response.
But how do I define a different code, like created (201)?
And how do I set the headers of the response?
thanks, Tim
You are allowed to return any valid JSON from response.success(). Therefore, you could create an object with fields such as code, message, and value, so you can set the code, give it a string descriptor, and pass back the value you normally would, if there is one. This seems to accomplish what you need, though you will have to keep track of those codes across your platforms. I recommend looking up standard http response codes and make sure you don't overlap with any standards.
I am integrating with a third party API via a PUT request (required). However the URL is not what I consider standard.
https://standard.com/services/U2FsdGVkX18qfVhkTn7JsiXWA8q4vco7vpU%2BmeKqiXKafdKxfJqsq1ELGFOHIilpoR7VXqUcg89yXiabxjjfVXiRmVqGOffsKw%2BKLp5OU6%2FJZaTyn6BYxi%2F10ndtWFLG2KgxRmm%2BxtgTAopUi6m7wWTnSoAlL8qoS%2F3UbiippOw%3D.
Note that the reservation number isn't in the body nor as a parameter, its just a / then the number.
They have encoded the reservation number (requested via another API call). The issue is I'm using HttpRequestMessage, this decodes the %2F to /. Meaning it fails. I have tried double encoding the special characters but this isn't returning a consistent response, sometimes it fails other times it works (using different reservation numbers, only the %2F is double encoded). Is there a way to stop HttpRequestMessage decoding part of the URL?
I have tried encoding/decoding but it always gets stripped out here (unless double encoded:
var path = "https://standard.com/services/U2FsdGVkX18qfVhkTn7JsiXWA8q4vco7vpU%2BmeKqiXKafdKxfJqsq1ELGFOHIilpoR7VXqUcg89yXiabxjjfVXiRmVqGOffsKw%2BKLp5OU6%2FJZaTyn6BYxi%2F10ndtWFLG2KgxRmm%2BxtgTAopUi6m7wWTnSoAlL8qoS%2F3UbiippOw%3D";
var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.PUT, path);
var requestMessage = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(path);
var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(method, new Uri(path));
Update: This was a design decision made by Microsoft:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/511010/erroneous-uri-parsing-for-encoded-reserved-characters-according-to-rfc-3986
The solution from their point of view is to add a setting in the
web.config. But this is a class library and therefore used by more
than one project. I don't want to alter that unless I really have to
This was a design decision made by Microsoft: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/511010/erroneous-uri-parsing-for-encoded-reserved-characters-according-to-rfc-3986
while using http adapter I need to call first service that return XML,
after receiving the response I want to change values and send back to anther service,
how can I do it ?
do http adapter has json to xml function ?
WL adapter will automatically convert XML to JSON for you, however it doesn't have any manual JSON<->XML conversion APIs.
In your case possible solution might be to retrieve XML as plaintext by supplying returnedContentType:"plain" in invocation options. Alter whatever you need using regex/string replace. Use resulting string in 2nd procedure invocation as post body.
Alternatively, you can use 3rd party library to parse/convert/do whatever you need with XML, e.g. http://www.json.org/java/ (more info about how to use it in your adapter - http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/mobile-solutions/worklight/docs/v506/04_08_Using_Java_in_adapters.pdf)
After checking number of solutions, I state the the http result will be a plain text,
then made a call to java function sending the xml as String, and used
javax.xml to hold and alter the XML.
XPath to retrieve the correct node using org.w3c.dom.*
Hope this will help you too.
I've read this example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee476510.aspx about dynamic responses in wcf.
The sample on the bottom fit my goal pretty well. This is what i did:
[OperationContract]
[WebGet(UriTemplate = "/salaries({queryString})")]
Message GetSalaryByQuery(string queryString);
and my GetSalaryByQuery-Method:
public Message GetSalaryByQuery(string querystring)
{
if (WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest.Accept == "application/json")
return WebOperationContext.Current.CreateJsonResponse<Result>(Salary.GetSalaryByQueryJson(querystring));
else
return WebOperationContext.Current.CreateAtom10Response(Salary.GetSalaryByQuery(querystring));
}
It is pretty similiar to the example i found.
But its not working however. It says that there is another parameter besides the message. I googled the message-class and it seems to me that its not possible to add an parameter to a message-response.
Is there a way to pass a parameter with the request and get a response with a message object?
Is there another way to get the dynamic response?
Thanks in advance.
I got it to work. I just deleted the Metadata-Enpoint and the behavior. My Webservice provides metadata on its own and therefore doesnt need to have the mex-Metadata defined.
Can Flash be used together with SQL? I have a Flash form and I need to connect it to SQL. If there is any example on the net about this topic. I can't find it.
You don't use ActionScript directly with an SQL database. Instead you make http requests from ActionScript to a server, specifying the correct parameters. A typical opensource setup, is a PHP script communicating with a MySQL DB, but you can use Java with Oracle, Ruby with CouchDB, .NET with SQL or any other possible configuration. The important point is that you must be able to call a server script and pass variables... typically a Restful setup.
Once your PHP script has been properly configured, you can use http POST or http GET to send values from ActionScript.
PHP:
<?php
$updateValue = $_POST["updateValue"];
$dbResult = updateDB( $updateValue ); //This should return the db response
echo( $dbResult );
?>
To call this script from ActionScript, you need to create a variables object.
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
variables.updateValue = "someResult";
The variable name .updateValue, must match the php variable exactly.
now create a URLRequest Object, specifying the location of your script. For this example the method must be set to POST. You add the variable above to the data setter of the request.
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "yourScript.php" );
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
request.data = variables;
Now create a URLLoader and add an event listener. Do not pass the request created above to the constructor, but to the load method.
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete );
loader.load( request );
The handler would look something like this.
private function onComplete( e:Event ) : void
{
trace( URLLoader( e.target ).data.toString() );
}
This example shows how to update and receive a response from a server / db combo. However, you can also query a DB through the script and parse the result. So in the PHP example above, you can output JSON, XML or even a piped string, and this can be consumed by ActionScript.
XML is a popular choice, as ActionScript's e4x support treats XML like a native object.
To treat the response above like an XML response, use the following in the onComplete handler.
private function onComplete( e:Event ) : void
{
var result:XML = XML( URLLoader( e.target ).data );
}
This will throw an error if your xml is poorly formed, so ensure the server script always prints out valid XML, even if there is a DB error.
The problem with this is giving someone a flash file that directly accesses SQL server is very insecure. Even if it's possible, which I have seen SOCKET classes out there to do so for MySQL (though never used it), allowing users to remotely connect to your DB is insecure as the user can sniff the login information.
In my opinion, the best way to do this is to create a Client/Server script. You can easily do this with PHP or ASP.net by using SendAndLoad to send the data you need to pass to SQL via POST fields. You can then send back the values in PHP with:
echo 'success='.+urlencode(data);
With this, flash can access the data via the success field.
I don't personally code flash but I work with a company who develops KIOSK applications for dozens of tradeshow companies, and my job is to store the data, return it to them. This is the method we use. You can make it even cleaner by using actual web services such as SOAP, but this method gets the job done if its just you using it.
You should look into Zend Amf or even the Zend Framework for server side communication with Flash. As far as I know Zend Amf is the fastest way to communicate with PHP ( therefore your database ) also you can pass & return complex Objects from the client to the server and vice versa.
Consider this , for instance. You have a bunch of data in your database , you implement functions in ZF whereas this data is formatted and set as a group of Value Objects. From Flash , you query ZF , Zf queries the database , retrieve & formats your data, return your Value Objects as a JSON string ( for instance ). In Flash, you retrieve you JSON string , decode it and assign your Value Objects to whatever relevant classes you have.
There are plenty of tutorials out there regarding Flash communication with the Zend Framework.
Here's an example:
http://gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=90