Need to auto-generate SDK for REST web service.

My company has developed a REST API for some web services, and we'd like to provide users with a Java SDK for consuming those services.
Our services are described by an XSD schema. On the backend, we are using JAXB to create Java classes corresponding to the schema. We create the request objects based on the parameters in the REST url, and JAXB converts our response objects from Java to XML.
We'd like to provide our users with similar Java classes on the client side. They should be able to create the object corresponding to the request, fill in various parameters, and submit it to our web service. The SDK should automatically convert the object into a REST URL, hit the URL with a Get, read the XML response, and convert that response into Java objects.
It seems like we should be able to auto-generate such an SDK based on our schema.
It seems like there are several tools for doing this for SOAP web services. For example, Apache Axis has Java2WSDL and WSDL2Java.
Can anyone recommend tools for creating client-side libraries for consuming RESTful web services? Does anyone have advice on products to avoid?

Replying to my own post here. The WADL2Java project on java.dev seems to be more like what I need. The only user-experience I've seen on the 'net is in this forum post:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5239123&tstart=0
Anyone else used it?

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                params:{objectID:'objectID'},
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            update: {
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Best regards,
Thomas.

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Kurt:
It does look like a bug. I can offer the following workaround.
Create a Manual Web reference as described here:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B32472_01/doc/appdev.300/b32471/advnc.htm#BABCBBHJ
section "Creating a Web Service Manually"
based on the WSDL below, you would enter the following for URL and Action:
URL: http://xpvm.us.oracle.com:8888/orabpel/default/ItemGet/1.0
Action: process
Also, enter a name for an APEX collection to store the response, such as GET_ITEM_RESPONSE.
For the SOAP Envelope, paste in the one that works from SOAPUI or use BPEL Control to get the envelope. Instead of static values for the parameters you use #ITEM_NAME# substitutions. So if the page generated by the wizard was on page 1, it would look something like:
<inputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="payload"><get:Item xmlns:get="http://TargetNamespace.com/GetItemRequest">
<get:SETID>#P1_SETID#</get:SETID>
<get:ITEM_ID>#P1_ITEM_ID#</get:ITEM_ID>
</get:Item>
</part></inputVariable>
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http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B32472_01/doc/appdev.300/b32469/web_serv.htm#CHDEFEGH
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Jason

Problem with RESTful web service

I am running into a problem with Flex Web Services (REST) in trying to get the proper format returned. I can see that the HTTP header is set to
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Hi,
I have posted a simple application with the RESTful reference:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=13758
I can give you full privileges on this so you can look at the WEB service reference. Shall I send to you separately for login user?
It is using the RESTful service: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/nd_pat_miller/demo/employee/{deptno}
This RESTful service tests fine when I test from within the RESTful web service module of the Workspace.
I based this on the Video demo tutorial for RESTful web service that Oracle published for 4.2 release. The video seemed to exclude the {deptno} in the URL but when I try that, it doesn't work either.
This is the error I am getting when I run this on my Apex environment: (it, of course, will not run the web service in the apex.oracle.com environment)
class="statusMessage">Bad Request</span>
</h3>
</div>
</div>
<div id="xWhiteContentContainer" class="xContentWide">
<div class="xWhiteContent">
<div class="errorPage">
<p>
<ul class="reasons"><li class="badRequestReason"><span class="target" style="display:none;">uri</span><span class="reason">Request path contains unbound parameters: deptno</span></li>
</ul>Thanks,
Pat
Edited by: patfmnd on May 8, 2013 3:33 AM

ADF Mobile - Securing REST Web Services

Hi,
I've developed some REST web services for my ADF Mobile app to use. They work fine but I'm having trouble securing them. According to the developer guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35521_01/doc.111230/e24475/amxwebservices.htm#CHDGFCGD
10.5.2 How to Enable Access to REST-Based Web Services
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I'm trying to attach the policy in JDeveloper by selecting the service class in the java structure pane, then in the Property Inspector, using the "Web Services extension" section to select the policy.
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Hi,
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Frank

Java - rest web services question.

Hi all,
I am new to SOAP and Rest based web services.
In my current standalone application, the request and response payload of a query are in the form of a xml document. This application needs to be accessed by several applications that are written in diffrent programming languages(.net, python etc).
Thus I want my application to be exposed as a web service. Some web services need to be SOAP based and others need not be.
I understand that I need to follow the below steps to make Rest based web service :
1a) I would expose my application interface description and business methods as URIs in a html/xml document.
1b) If client wants to retrieve data, how will he programatically access the associated URI and set the method parameters (if any)?
Also how does he send the request back to my application and how will my application understand it?
1d) Can the code to understand the client request be written in any programming language since Rest does not restrict usage of specific tools.
1f) It looks like the key feature of Rest is to have URIs in the reponse payload xml.
Is this always required? In other words, can the reponse xml be one long xml without URIs to the embedded resources?
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Your input is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your valuable time and interest.

You will be interested in JSR 311 JAX-RS: The JavaTM API for RESTful Web Services. This JSR is in the very early stages. The SWDP (Sun Web Developers Pack) 1.0 contains a very preliminary implementation of RESTBeans which is the basis for this JSR. Download the SWDP and look at the docs/samples in the rest-impl directory. http://developers.sun.com/web/swdp/. Here is a link to some docs on the REST APIs http://developers.sun.com/docs/web/swdp/r1/rest-impl/docs/getting-started.html

How to schedule Webi Documents with Prompts with RESTful Web Services

Hello,
I am trying to schedule Webi Documents with Prompts using RESTful Web Services with prompts. I am using Simple Rest Client app provided by Google Chrome. We have Business Objects SP6 Patch 1.
However the documentation for RESTful Web Services has only examples for the following
1. Schedule Documents without any Prompts to various destinations and recurrences.
2. Refresh Documents with Prompts.
Is there any example for scheduling documents with prompts? Please advise
Thanks in advance

Hi Peter,
With Rest Client, on BI4.0 SP6, you can schedule Webi documents with prompts using the following:
URL: http://<servername>:6405/biprws/raylight/v1/documents/<docid>/schedules
Method:POST
Request Body:
<schedule>
<name>Enter values for City:</name>
<format type="webi"/>
<destination>
<inbox/>
</destination>
<once retriesAllowed="2" retryIntervalInSeconds="60">
<startdate>2013-08-26T15:58:51.000+02:00</startdate>
<enddate>2013-08-27T15:58:51.000+02:00</enddate>
</once>
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<id>0</id>
<technicalName>Enter values for City:</technicalName>
<answer constrained="false" type="Text">
<values>
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</values>
</answer>
</parameter>
</parameters>
</schedule>
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The schedule can be sent in different formats to several destinations and set just for once, daily,
hourly or monthly.
You can also check the example for this on page 275 of SAP Webi RESTful SDK user guide for BI4.0 SP6 below:
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Regards,
Swati
Message was edited by: Swati Ikhe

Problem getting RESTful web service reference working with header value

Hi,
I posted this on Apex Listener forum but since I am not sure problem is with my Application RESTful web service reference or a Listener issue, I am posting here as well:
I am on Apex 4.2.2 and Listener 2.1 and the listener is on WEblogic.
I succeeded to get a RESTful web service working in an application with no header to obtain a full set of data. The data set is very large, so I am now just trying to set up a web service to get a set of data based on a student ID.
I followed the examples shown in the RESTful web service module of SQL Workshop and set up a handler of this type:
https://ourweblogicserver/apex/bnr/ace/students/course_grades/{stid}
The test for this handler succeeded both for JSON output and CSV output in the Workshop test environment.
However, when I try it from a Web Service Reference that I created for my application following what looked like the same approach used on the example video, I get NO data back. If I put a 'stid' directly into a URL of a web browser and do the basic authentication I get the data!!
This is what I have for the Web service reference:
https://ourweblogicserver/apex/bnr/ace/students/course_grades/{stid}
Basic auth set to Yes -- and this is working -- I am able to authenticate
HTTP method Get
output format Text
no response Xpath
no response namespace
defaults for new record and parameter delimiter
NO REST input parameters
Output set for all the fields in the data set queried (same set of data as in my rest service which does not have any http header)
REST HTTP Header : Name stid
I there something I am missing. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this further.
I also tried exactly following the example shown on the Oracle Video for RESTFul web services at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkCvd6P8_OU
and I can't get the 2nd example to work either-- where the header has the bind variable parameter.
Pat

I was able to resolve the problem -- in the latest version of the RESTful web service that I created, I had left out the creation of the Header Parameter bind variable. Once I did that everything works fine!! I was able to test in the application and got the record of an individual student.
Thanks,
PM

Problem with RESTful web service with header value

Hi,
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I succeeded to get a RESTful web service working in an application with no header to obtain a full set of data. The data set is very large, so I am now just trying to set up a web service to get a set of data based on a student ID.
I followed the examples shown in the RESTful web service module of SQL Workshop and set up a handler of this type:
https://ourweblogicserver/apex/bnr/ace/students/course_grades/{stid}
The test for this handler succeeded both for JSON output and CSV output in the Workshop test environment.
However, when I try it from a Web Service Reference that I created for my application following what looked like the same approach used on the example video, I get NO data back. If I put a 'stid' directly into a URL of a web browser and do the basic authentication I get the data!!
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https://ourweblogicserver/apex/bnr/ace/students/course_grades/{stid}
Basic auth set to Yes -- and this is working -- I am able to authenticate
HTTP method Get
output format Text
no response Xpath
no response namespace
defaults for new record and parameter delimiter
NO REST input parameters
Output set for all the fields in the data set queried (same set of data as in my rest service which does not have any http header)
REST HTTP Header : Name stid
I there something I am missing. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this further.
Pat

Hi,
I have posted a simple application with the RESTful reference:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=13758
I can give you full privileges on this so you can look at the WEB service reference. Shall I send to you separately for login user?
It is using the RESTful service: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/nd_pat_miller/demo/employee/{deptno}
This RESTful service tests fine when I test from within the RESTful web service module of the Workspace.
I based this on the Video demo tutorial for RESTful web service that Oracle published for 4.2 release. The video seemed to exclude the {deptno} in the URL but when I try that, it doesn't work either.
This is the error I am getting when I run this on my Apex environment: (it, of course, will not run the web service in the apex.oracle.com environment)
class="statusMessage">Bad Request</span>
</h3>
</div>
</div>
<div id="xWhiteContentContainer" class="xContentWide">
<div class="xWhiteContent">
<div class="errorPage">
<p>
<ul class="reasons"><li class="badRequestReason"><span class="target" style="display:none;">uri</span><span class="reason">Request path contains unbound parameters: deptno</span></li>
</ul>Thanks,
Pat
Edited by: patfmnd on May 8, 2013 3:33 AM

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Hi,
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Hi Raghunath,
Looking at your macro, most of the functionality would be available with REST SDK. With BI 4.x REST is now only SDK which provides APIs to work with webi report. With .NET or Java SDK we could not eeven schedule a webi doc with prompts.
With BI 4.1 REST APIs include.
refresh report, schedule report, save report, export which is done by your macro.
For detailed tasks, such as saving and modifying the report for specific users and send to schedule, you would need to play around with REST Urls to understand the workflow.
For starters take a look at the devleopers guide for REST here:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41_webi_restful_ws_en.pdf
Here is the doc which compares the availability of SDK APIs with different BI versions.
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-53285
For any Enterprise level tasks, you could always use .NET or Java enterprise SDk and comibe it with your REST app.
- Bhushan
Senior Engineer
SAP Active Global Support
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How to update the Query of an existing WEBI document's dataprovider, through the RESTful Web service SDK.

Hi,
I am trying to update the Query of an existing WEBI document's dataprovider, through the RESTful Web service SDK.
For this, first i will get the Dataprovider information,
Example:
URI: http://localhost:6405/biprws/raylight/v1/documents/11111/dataproviders/DP0
Expected result;
<dataprovider>
     <id>DP0</id>
     <name>Query 1</name>
     <dataSourceId>1234</dataSourceId>
     <updated>2014-04-18T11:55:21.000-08:00</updated>
     <duration>1</duration>
     <isPartial>false</isPartial>
     <rowCount>113</rowCount>
     <flowCount>11</flowCount>
     <dictionary>
          <expression qualification="Dimension" dataType="String">
               <id>DP0.DO1</id>
                <name>EmpID</name>
               <description>Employee ID.</description>
                <dataSourceObjectId>DS0.DO1</dataSourceObjectId>
          </expression>
          <expression qualification="Dimension" dataType="String">
               <id>DP0.DO2</id>
               <name>EmpName</name>
               <description>Employee Name.</description>
               <dataSourceObjectId>DS0.DO2</dataSourceObjectId>
          </expression>
     </dictionary>
     <query>SELECT Employee.EmpID, Employee.EmpName FROM Employee</query>
</dataprovider>
Then Changing the above dataprovider's Query to some thing like below,
<query>SELECT Employee.EmpID, Employee.EmpName FROM Employee where Upper(Employee.EmpName)='RAJ'</query>
Please let me know the RESTful Call required to do this.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Mahendra.

FYI, the output of this call returns something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<queryplan>
    <union>
        <fullOuterJoin>
            <statement index="1">SELECT 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy'), count( distinct SALES.inv_id) FROM SALES GROUP BY 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy')</statement>
            <statement index="2">SELECT 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy'), sum(INVOICE_LINE.nb_guests) FROM SALES, INVOICE_LINE, SERVICE_LINE, SERVICE WHERE ( SALES.INV_ID=INVOICE_LINE.INV_ID ) AND ( INVOICE_LINE.SERVICE_ID=SERVICE.SERVICE_ID ) AND ( SERVICE.SL_ID=SERVICE_LINE.SL_ID ) AND ( SERVICE_LINE.service_line = 'Accommodation' ) GROUP BY 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy')</statement>
        </fullOuterJoin>
        <fullOuterJoin>
            <statement index="3">SELECT 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy'), count( distinct SALES.inv_id) FROM SALES GROUP BY 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy')</statement>
            <statement index="4">SELECT 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy'), sum(INVOICE_LINE.days * INVOICE_LINE.nb_guests * SERVICE.price) FROM SALES, INVOICE_LINE, SERVICE WHERE ( SALES.INV_ID=INVOICE_LINE.INV_ID ) AND ( INVOICE_LINE.SERVICE_ID=SERVICE.SERVICE_ID ) GROUP BY 'FY' || to_char(SALES.invoice_date,'yy')</statement>
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Creating RESTful Web Service for BLOB retrieval

Hi,
Just got RESTful web services working in Apex 4.2.1 with new Listener 2.1.
I have now been asked to create a RESTful web service by which photos in BLOB column can be retrieved upon providing the ID for that photo. Can this be done using the Creating RESTful Service Module of Apex 4.2.1? Looking at the Apex 4.2 documentation, I would assume this can be done, but has anyone used this with BLOB data?
Thanks,
Pat

Hi Pat,
Yes this can be done using RESTful Services - you just need to ensure the query used is in the required format. To obtain a BLOB for a given ID, you would need create a Resource template and handler with the following settings:
Resource Template Settings:
URI template: emppic/{id}
Resource Handler Settings:
Source query: select mimetype, product_image from demo_product_info where product_id = :id..where the format of the SQL query is SELECT 'content_type', blob_column FROM . . ., as mentioned in Rick Greenwald's Cloud White paper "RESTful Web Services for the Oracle Database Cloud", under the "SQL Source Type" section (see www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-cloud/public/restful-wp-1844130.pdf ):
where 'content_type' is a string passed to the browser to be used to identify the incoming data, and the column to identify the source of the data being sent back. This data is sent back untouched by the Oracle Database Cloud Service. The Media Resource Source Type is typically used for media objects, such as images, where the data will be directly handled by the recipient making the call.The MIMETYPE column in the sample query above holds the necessary setting for the 'content_type' i.e. 'image/jpeg'. The value of ID is then passed in as a parameter when calling the service e.g. emppic/1234. The item level help text would be more helpful if it included additional information, and this is something we intend on addressing in a future release.
I hope this example helps.
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Hilary

Auto generate index for FK

Where is option like 'auto generate index for FK' in DataModeler 4.0.3?

You need to right-click on the Browser node for the Design and select Properties.
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Is it possible to add a user using the RESTful Web Services SDK

Others have asked before about user management features in the RESTful Web Services SDK. However I can find no answers or links which provide an answer to the question 'Is it possible to add a user using the BI 4.1 SP2 RESTful Web Services SDK'?
Any help would be appreciated.
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http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41_bip_rest_ws_en.pdf
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