Oracle Integration Cloud: Building Integrations That Survive Production · Module 3 · Connections and adapters
The REST adapter
Lesson 24 of 175 · 2 min
The workhorse. Most estates use the REST adapter more than everything else combined, and it does two quite different jobs. A RESOURCE YOU CALL is an outbound invoke: you configure the URL, the verb, the request and response structures, and the headers. A TRIGGER YOU EXPOSE is inbound: OIC publishes an endpoint and somebody else calls it, and you define what a caller must send and what they get back. The distinction matters because the configuration is a MIRROR: on an invoke you are describing somebody else's contract, and on a trigger you are writing your own — which means the trigger's shape is a decision you will have to live with, since callers bind to it and Module 2's versioning lesson applies. Request and response structures are usually generated from a sample payload, and that is where the commonest mistake lives: a sample missing an optional field produces a…
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In this module: Module 3 · Connections and adapters
- 1What a connection is
- 2Choosing an adapterFree preview
- 3The REST adapter
- 4The SOAP adapter
- 5The FTP adapter
- 6The database adapter
- 7Testing a connection properly
- 8One connection or several
- 9Connectivity agents, and when you need one
- 10What breaks: four connection failures
- 11Lab briefing · Three connections, three systems