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Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 6 · Connecting to Fusion

Creating one against a Fusion REST API

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Finding the endpoint, DESCRIBING IT, and TESTING IT. What the generated type is built from, and WHY THAT MATTERS AT THE NEXT UPDATE. This is the mechanical lesson of the module, and the two things worth taking from it are how to find the endpoint at all, and what the test you run is actually establishing. FINDING IT IS THE FIRST OBSTACLE AND IT IS A DOCUMENTATION PROBLEM RATHER THAN A TOOL ONE. Fusion publishes REST APIs per product family, versioned in the path, and the resource you want is usually named after the business object rather than the screen you saw it on. Start from the API catalogue for the release your pod is running, not from a search result, because the shape changes between releases and an example from two releases ago will mislead you specifically. DESCRIBING IT MEANS GIVING THE TOOL THE URL AND LETTING IT CALL…

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In this module: Module 6 · Connecting to Fusion

  1. 1What a service connection is
  2. 2Creating one against a Fusion REST APIFree preview
  3. 3Authentication, and whose identity is used
  4. 4Why a shared service account is usually wrong
  5. 5Query parameters, filtering and fields
  6. 6Pagination, properly
  7. 7Writing back to Fusion
  8. 8When the shape changes underneath you
  9. 9Calling an OIC integration instead
  10. 10Handling a service that is down
  11. 11CORS and the errors it produces
  12. 12What breaks: four connection failures
  13. 13Lab briefing · Connect, over-fetch, then fix it