Does DotNetNuke have a built in web services API I can call or do I have to create my own end point? All the documentation I can find about the services framework talks about creating your own module with a service to extend theirs. What I would like to do is authenticate against an existing / built in web service that will allow me to create users from an external application. A similar example would be me calling the built in SharePoint web services to retrieve list information with an external application. I don't have to write anything in SharePoint to call the built in web services. They are just there.
If this built in service(s) does exist do you have a link or some sample code about how to call it without writing my own web service module?
Thanks,
Bill
DNN does not (as of version 9.1) have a (supported) external API. There are web services designed to the internal modules to use, but you have to get a little hacky in order to make them usable outside of the site. There has been talk of creating a more standard API like this, but until the happens the scenario requires that you create specific APIs for your exact purposes.
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On Abp community site there are a few articles on how to access an Abp endpoint from Xamarin/Maui. Basically it boils down to:
create mobile client
login with user name and password
obtain access token
use this token as bearer for API calls.
However, in the microservices samples there is a Console app sample which has services injected and used. Now that would be quite awesome to use inside xamarin.
My question is: can abp application services be used directly in xamarin forms? I see no way of injecting the services.
I can share a couple of articles about it, I think those might help:
https://community.abp.io/posts/consume-abp-api-from-xamarin-app-3by6fdz6
MAUI, but they'll work on Xamarin too:
https://community.abp.io/posts/integrating-maui-client-via-using-openid-connect-aqjjwsdf
https://community.abp.io/posts/abp-framework-consumed-by-a-.net-maui-app-e74fmblw
We currently have our API set up in azure and use deployment slots which each have their own app settings. For example, on our live slot we set our connection string to the live database. On our dev slot we set the connection string to the test database.
So, I have been tasked with doing something similar with our SPA. I created it using .net core and angular. Currently it has a constant set up:
.constant('apiUrl', 'https://ourlive.api.com')
I have a few set up and I just comment out the ones I am not using. What I have been tasked with, is putting these into the application settings and using deployment slots for different URLs. For example, the live slot will use the Live URL and the Dev slot will use the Dev URL.
I read that you can do this using npm but this isn't an option for us because we are using .net and the npm doesn't seem to work like that. Is there another way we can read the application settings?
Per my understanding, your scenario is a purely HTML + angularjs SPA, although they are running in a .NET core runtime. And your requirement is that you want to get the slot application settings in your SPA application. If I have any misunderstanding about your structure, please feel free to let me know.
You can try to leverage the .net core runtime to get the application settings in slot, and expose as an RESTful API for your SPA application.
And in your SPA application, you can create a server, to call your .net core's API, and you can inject this server and call this api when your SPA bootstrap in and keep the settings in $rootscope for your entire SPA application.
For slot application settings, you can refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-web/web-sites-staged-publishing#configuration-for-deployment-slots for more info.
I have to prepare an architecture with following technologies:
Angular JS 1.5
MVC 5.0/Web API.
EF 6.0
Is it a good option to have a single web project which has angular JS and Web API.
We need to expose web api's to other third party vendors. So, we are thinking to create a separate web api project as a separate project. Need your inputs.
Thanks,
Dhannajay
You can have a lot of options to define the architecture, but to answer your questions, I think is better have separate projects in this case for the following reasons:
You can change the front-end without touch any in the api system (web api) and viceversa
You can scale both sites or only one, maybe, the front-end goes well, but you need more power in the web api, go ahead and scale only the api.
you can do this (like here)
API: your api front end
Core: business logic/EF
MVC: html/mvc/angularjs
DTO: classes/models
We are developing a java based web application. This application needs a commenting functionality. The commercially available commenting services (http://aboutecho.com/ or http://www.livefyre.com/ etc) are not inside my budget. Can I use Drupal's commenting functionality with my Java application?
Am afraid there are no out of the box solutions in drupal that am aware of.
But its is totally possible to use drupal to power your java application's comments. Am afraid you would have to do some custom coding to make it happen.
Install drupal 7 and a contrib module called services. By installing services you can extend drupal's resource as services resource. I recommend enabling a REST server (a sub module for services) and using it to communicate with drupal.
Integrating RESTFUL api in my application.
I've to use restful services in my new project. I'm using CakePHP 2.0.6
I do not want to create a restful services. I've to use restful services.
I want to know is there any ready made component is available in CakePhp to read restful services.
I want that component to serve me the output based on my services by doing the rest in the background.
Additionaly if the component is able to log it then it will be well and good.
A REST API is more a concept than a standard set of protocols, therefore there is no uniform way to interface with the APIs of different providers. Twitter has its own REST API, while Facebook provides another.
Most big webservices provide PHP classes to simplify interfacing with the API. For Twitter there's a third party library called TwitterOAuth and Facebook provides a PHP SDK. These can be loaded as Vendor files in CakePHP. See an earlier answer of mine regarding the loading of vendor files or this older post related to the 1.3 branch of Cake, but still relevant.
Several Cake developers have developed plugins for Cake to interact with popular webservices like the Facebook Plugin by webtechnick. Whereas loading vendor packages is the framework's equivalent of including them like you would in a plain PHP script, loading plugins is a bit different and might simplify things even more (or make them more abstract). The Cake manual entry on plugins has more information.
I've found a PHP Class from http://www.phpclasses.org Which is looks like taking care of most of the REST API part, And it worked for me for my purposes. It has got nice example file which will demonstrate how to use that class.
I've converted this class into Cakephp component. Here is the URL to download the class.
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/5480-PHP-Send-Web-services-requests-to-REST-servers.html
Check out CakePHP's HttpSocket utility. I have not used it yet but I think it's just an API for cURL which sounds like what you need. http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/httpsocket.html