Enable ROXIE query to set any of the header properties for making a call to a REST or SOAP server.

It would also be nice to be able to pull the http headers in ECL as well.

Support all the rest oriented methods (GET, POST, DELETE, etc.). Since in telematics MOST calls are requesting from a AJAX call or a true mobile device, we use JSON requests/responses pretty extensively. Support for this would be nice as well.

Here is a sample post to one of our services (one I had handy, but doesn’t match the code examples below):

POST /services/vehiclesensors HTTP/1.1
Host: malsandboxdev2.edata.com
X-Api-Service-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Basic ZTZmN2ExOTEtNzIyZi00YzY5LWJhNmUtZTdjMjZkODc1ZDQ0fDEzMTplNDYxMmQ3M2IzZjRhYTVmNDE3ZmE2MjE2NjlhOGU2Zg==
Cache-Control: no-cache

{ "vehicleId":"1113", "sessionId":"0000003E", "macAddress":"00:06:66:48:CF:53” }

Example server side Java/Spring code. You can see it forces the "X-Api-Service-Version=1.0” from the client side:

@RequestMapping(value = "/services/getcoordinates", method = RequestMethod.GET, headers = {"X-Api-Service-Version=1.0"})
public @ResponseBody List<Coordinate> getcoordinates(@ModelAttribute("id") String id, Locale locale, Model model,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException {
……
}

Example AJAX client side code:

$.ajax({
url: "${pageContext.request.contextPath}/services/getcoordinates?id=${metricImport[0].import_id}",
headers: { "X-Api-Service-Version": "1.0" },
type: 'GET',
beforeSend: function() {
},
success: function(data, textStatus, xhr) {
$.each(data, function (i, val){

pts[i] = new google.maps.LatLng(val.latitude, val.longitude);
bounds.extend(pts[i]);
dataTable.addRow([new Date(val.time), val.speed]);
});
},
error: function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
alert(textStatus+"="errorThrown" "+xhr.responseText);
}
});