Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 6 · Connecting to Fusion
Calling an OIC integration instead
Lesson 63 of 176 · 3 min
When the work belongs in AN INTEGRATION rather than in YOUR PAGE, and HOW THE TWO COURSES MEET AT THIS BOUNDARY. Some of what a page needs is not one call to one service, and that is the moment to ask whether it belongs in the page at all. THE TEST IS SIMPLE: HOW MANY SYSTEMS DOES THIS OPERATION TOUCH, AND WHAT HAPPENS IF IT FAILS HALFWAY? One call to one service belongs in your page. Three calls to two systems where the second failing leaves the first already done belongs in an integration, because that is a transaction problem and a browser is the worst place in the estate to have one. A BROWSER CANNOT RETRY WHAT IT DOES NOT REMEMBER. The user closes the tab, loses connectivity, or navigates away, and any half-completed sequence stops where it stopped — with no record, no retry, and nothing to reconcile…
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In this module: Module 6 · Connecting to Fusion
- 1What a service connection is
- 2Creating one against a Fusion REST APIFree preview
- 3Authentication, and whose identity is used
- 4Why a shared service account is usually wrong
- 5Query parameters, filtering and fields
- 6Pagination, properly
- 7Writing back to Fusion
- 8When the shape changes underneath you
- 9Calling an OIC integration instead
- 10Handling a service that is down
- 11CORS and the errors it produces
- 12What breaks: four connection failures
- 13Lab briefing · Connect, over-fetch, then fix it
