Comments on: Data Services Best Practices

By: _revo

_revo — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:39:49 +0000

oh unexpected turn.. this killed a lot from positive of DataService.. all simplicity came to zero if we need to handle input manually, then build sql, parse rowset and output handmade replyMessage ( Comparing with regular php coding – only autoWSDL generation seems to be as plus from using wso2/php framework. Of course for simple oneway methods it is still good but could (will?) be more. Please keep developing!!

By: dimuthu

dimuthu — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:12:43 +0000

If you are going to have a logic in the service method, you should use WSService object and proceed in normal way.
Data Services (Using DataService object) we just wrap database query from a data service, So no space to write additional code.

Thanks
Dimuthu

By: _revo

_revo — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:40:10 +0000

Sure, I did that way, but how you can work with $inMessage – check variables, threw custom WSFaults, WSMessages, addressing etc – according to requested operation. That is why I try to find solution to incapsulate operation body in function or class.

By: dimuthu

dimuthu — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:13:32 +0000

Yea you can expose two web service method in one php file. Have a look at this, http://labs.wso2.org/wsf/php/demo.php?name=RESTFulCRUD&demo=CRUDApplications/demo_client.php&src=./CRUDApplications.

By: _revo

_revo — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:50:04 +0000

Dear Dimuthu!! Many thanks for your great tutorial. Very clear and helpful.

Please advice how to manage more than 1 operation in one project file? For example is there a way to pack operations in functions or class? Please write example how to make 2 operations in 1 file, both with sql queries and different output model. Please..

Regards,
Alexey

By: dimuthu

dimuthu — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:02:49 +0000

Hi Eric,
Looks like you want to add an additional wrapper element to the generated response. That mean,

If it is so, you can’t do that.
But if you want is something like this, (see custom fields)

then you can do it. Please read this, http://wso2.org/wiki/display/wsfphp/API+for+Data+Services+Revised

Thanks
Dimuthu

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:26:46 +0000

opppss, the sample xml format was not displayed, should something like this:

response
data
record
…
/record
…
/data
/response

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:23:32 +0000

Hi there,

If im going to consume a REST web service created using WSF/PHP, is there anyway to modify the xml output format ($outputFormat) to include additional element?

say my output xml format should be like this:

….

notice the data element? How would i go about this in WSF/PHP?

thanks,

Eric