RESTful service activity

Use the RESTful service activity to integrate TotalAgility with external applications.

The RESTful service activity can integrate with external applications through the RESTful web service references.

RESTful web services typically map the five main HTTP methods to the operations they perform: POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, and PATCH.

The web service only sends the basic HTTP verbs – GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, and PATCH – to the server and expects JSON, or XML as the response.

For example, http://service.com/emp/123

XML format:

<Emp>
           <Name>ABC</Name>
           <Id>321</Id>
           <Email>abc@domain.com</Email>
           <Org>Tungsten</Org>
</Emp>

JSON format:

{
         "Name":"ABC",
         "Id":"321",
         "Email":"abc@doamin.com",
         "Org":"Tungsten"
}

Third-party REST APIs can be called from TotalAgility using "application/json", "application/xml", or "multipart/form-data" request content types via the RESTful service activity.

A "Multipart/form-data" request enables multiple parts to be sent in a single request, such as structured JSON metadata and binary document content (for example, a PDF file).

Multipart Form Data requests are only available for POST, PUT, or PATCH HTTP verbs.

How to: Configure a RESTful service activity