I'm a student who's newbie to the world of APIs and I'm working on an assignment where I have to create a NodeJs rest API that would call a SOAP service, transfer the XML response into a JSON object and return it to my angular project that calls this API.
I have looked around and found very little information about this, so is there a good place for me to start (Tutorial, courses, etc..) ?
looking forward to receiving answers because my passing grade is on the line :( </3
You need to break up this problem into multiple steps.
How do we make a rest-api in nodejs?
See a link like: https://www.codementor.io/#olatundegaruba/nodejs-restful-apis-in-10-minutes-q0sgsfhbd
OR How to best create a RESTful API in Node.js
How do we call a soap service from nodejs?
See e.g. SOAP Request using nodejs
How do we call our rest-api from angular?
https://angular.io/guide/http OR
Call Rest API From Angular Application
So break the problem up into steps, find the tutorials that help you implement that part, and put it all together.
Also use console.log and JSON.Stringify to debug your objects. E.g. see: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/5-ways-to-log-an-object-to-the-console-in-javascript-7b995c56af5a
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I am trying to get my head around web hooks. I receive a web hook from Shopify. I use https://beeceptor.com/ to receive the web hook which looks like the screenshot attached. It is a JSON. I want to use python to process the received POST and take some action. Can I know how I can retrieve this using python? Do I need to use the Flask framework or can I do with request? Here are details from Shopify https://shopify.dev/tutorials/manage-webhooks#verify-webhook
which I am unsure of.
You need to create a web app that can accept incoming HTTP traffic from Shopify - you can do this in Flask/Python or really any other web technology stack. Services like AWS Lambda can also work to receive the webhook and do some processing.
I have an API that is secured using OAuth (IdentityServer 4). I need to call this from an AWS Lambda function. I cant figure out how to do this in Node (noob to node). I can see an example of using oidc-client package but it seems to be designed for browser based clients. I just need the access token to call the api. Ive done this from a .Net console app, but Im lost in Node. Does anyone know of an example of doing this?
Thanks
#Jonesie have you tried example from AWS repository? Request you to take a look https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/tree/master/examples/apps/api-gateway-authorizer-nodejs
I am currently running a web service on an Apache Tomcat servlet container. The web service has a base URL and exposes my applications data using the following structure:
http://[hostname]:[port]/path/to/root/[db_table_name]/[primary_key]?fields=name,...
An HTTP GET call to a URL like the one above would return a JSON formatted string.
Though the documentation for my application describes this as a RESTful API, I am confused because I was under the impression that true RESTful APIs do not use query strings. Rather, as I understand it, a true restful API provides a uniform structure, in the form of resource endpoints.
My questions relate to how I can create a custom API to leverage the existing API using Node.js. I do not want to rewrite the application logic or database calls; I just need to know how I can create the API calls using Node.js (possibly using Express or some other framework) and let the existing API handle the request.
For example, I could write Node.js code using the Express module that has several routes, these routes would handle client requests that in turn would call the existing API (i.e. /path/to/root/[table_name]/[pk]... and return the response.
If my Apache Tomcat server is listening on port 8080, how would I deploy my Node.js server to listen on another port and then redirect requests to the existing WS URL on port 8080.
Does the Express framework support explicitly specifying a root path (such as http://localhost:3000/path/to/root/[table_name]/[pk]) as the default root path?
Finally, I know REST APIs support CRUD operations. In the case of a POST method, does Express (or Node.js) have built-in logic to handle duplicate POST requests so that duplicate records don't get created in the database.
I'm reading through different article and tutorials on REST but I think I'm missing something. Any information or advice that can take me in the right direction would be much appreciated.
there's a lot to cover here but I'll try to cover your three questions. Since you have mentioned using Express I will answer assuming that Express is the framework you are using.
If you are using Express, you can choose which port to listen to when you start the server, so you can choose any port that you like at that point (see here).
If you need to redirect a request you can do so easily with res.redirect() (see here). However, you could also call the other web service directly, retrieve the data and return it to the client instead of redirecting them if you prefer. That would require some more code to make the http requests in node.js though.
I am not 100% sure if this is the answer to your question, but there are ways to add a "base path" or namespace to all of your routes. I found this example where various namespaces are used but in your case you only need one which applies to all routes.
I don't think there is a built-in way to do this. The best I can think of is potentially creating some kind of ID for the request so that if it is sent twice you could use this to check but it's far from ideal.
I would like to add that I'm not sure where the idea that query parameters not being RESTful comes from? I think query parameters are fine because that is how you query! Otherwise you couldn't ask for the right data from your RESTful API. Let's say you have a /posts endpoint and you want to get the posts of a particular user (user ID = 1). The RESTful way to do this would be to issue a GET request to /posts?user=1.
Hope this helps!
I have been using the asynchronous abilities of Node.js from quite some time now. But I am stuck on an interesting problem. Basically I have 2 API's that I need to call one after the other. Due to the asynchronous nature of Node.js I cannot retrieve the response of the first API request till it has finished and the respective callback function is called.
What I want to do is that I want to pass the response from the first API as request payload to the second API on the fly and not wait till the first API gets fully completed.
As a possible alternative, should I switch from building rest API to stream APIs?
Any pointers on how to do this?
Thanks
Yes, converting REST API'S to stream API is a better option. Node.js is known for its asynchronous behaviour. Because of the same all REST api's function in the same manner as you described earlier. As someone has previously pointed you could look at the Twitter Stream API for reference.
For more understanding you can check out this link - How to create a streaming API with NodeJS
I am in need to send multiple items over rest web service being developed over Nodejs + Restify. I can send single object e.g. User.
Suppose, my app got 10 - 100 users at once and want to upload on server via Restful web service developed in nodejs/restify. What would be good solution for this?
I managed to do that through a jQuery Ajax Request. You can see my post for the solution.
Post jQuery JSON Object to NodeJs Restify
You can put you array in a Json, and then send it to your web service in one url parameter using JSON.stringify(your json)