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Using Web Services to Create Events Web Services Explained And a Production Ready Example

Using Web Services to Create Events Web Services Explained And a Production Ready Example. Topics Covered. Web Services Example Our Production Environment What is a Web Service? Why use Web Services with R25? Creating an Event with Web Services. Web Services Example.

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Using Web Services to Create Events Web Services Explained And a Production Ready Example

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  1. Using Web Services to Create EventsWeb Services ExplainedAnd a Production Ready Example

  2. Topics Covered • Web Services Example • Our Production Environment • What is a Web Service? • Why use Web Services with R25? • Creating an Event with Web Services

  3. Web Services Example • The below file is included in case you are interested in downloading this presentation, or if we have internet connectivity issues.

  4. Our Environment • All Windows 2003 Servers. • R25 Application Server 3.3 • R25 Web Server 3.3 • R25 Web Services 1.71 • PeopleSoft CRM • Cold Fusion 8.0

  5. What is a Web Service? • A web service exposes data, and processes for one application for use in another application. • Web Services provides a layer of abstraction which protects external applications from breaking if the internal mechanics change. • There are many types of web services. R25 uses a REST based system.

  6. Web Application R25 Web Services App Server Database

  7. 1 GET http://r25/event.xml?event_id=1234 Web Application R25 Web Services 2 Event Information

  8. Web Application R25 Web Services 2 1 Success/Fail POST http://r25/event.xml?event_id=1234

  9. Why use Web Services with R25 Some things were not delivered with the event request form that was provided. • No Implementation of Categories • No Way to Verify Room Availability

  10. Creating an Event with Web Services There are three main components to creating an event. • Authentication • Room Search • Event Creation

  11. Authentication Authentication is achieved with a challenge response handshake. • GET r25ws/servlet/wrd/run/login.xml • Returns a string, that must be hashed with the password • The hash format is: • hash({hash(password)}:{challenge string}) • The ‘:’ needs to be included in the hash. I found this misleading in the documentation. • R25 Challenge Response Documentation is here:http://knowledge25.collegenet.com/display/WSW/Authentication#Authentication-challengeresponseauth

  12. Room Search To perform a room search: • We created a temporary search, and run it via Web Services. • This is as powerful as building a search in the R25 client. • You could easily use this to create custom reports, or custom calendar display on the web. • Searches follows the same conventions as the rest of R25’s web services.

  13. Event Creation After the end user submits the form, we create the event. The new event: • Is associated with the appropriate contact. • Has a default state of ‘Draft’. • Has an exact room match, which reduces human error. • Saves category data. Category data matches our public website’s news categories.

  14. Contact Information Ben LiyanageInformation Systems Developerbliyanage@mica.edu Presentation & Code Available For Download Here http://perfectresolution.com/?p=369 (You can also find it under the R25 tag)

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