REST Reference Tutorial

You cannot convert REST reference to SOAP or vice versa.

Creating a New Application

1. Open TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks.
2. Open the Design perspective by clicking the Design icon in the upper right corner.
3. Click File > New > Other > BusinessWorks > BusinessWorks Application Module and click Next.
4. Enter tibco.bw.sample.binding.rest in the Project Name text box. Do not change the remaining default settings.
5. Click Finish. This step creates a new application module with an empty process.
6. Obtain the Swagger file from the Swagger UI of the running service.
7. Copy and paste the content into a new file, and call it Books.json.

Importing the JSON File into your Project

1. In the Project Explorer, expand tibco.bw.sample.binding.rest application module.
2. Right-click Service Descriptors and select Import > Import... > General > File System and click Next.
3. In the File system dialog box, click the Browse button and browse to the location of the Books.json file.
4. Select the check box next to Books.json in the left pane and click Finish..

Creating the REST Reference

1. In the Project Explorer, completely expand the tibco.bw.sample.binding.rest folder under Service Descriptors.
2. Select the /books under Books.json and drag and drop it to the right side of the process in the Process Editor. The references are added to the process. The purple chevron indicates the service and its operations.
3. In the Process Editor, right-click Add Activity > General Activities > Timer. Optionally, you can configure the Sleep activity with IntervalInMillisec as 3000 in a similar manner and connect the Timer with Sleep.
4. Drag the get operation under the purple chevron and drop it on the right of Timer activity (or Sleep if configured) and connect the Timer activity with the get activity.
5. Drag the post operation under the purple chevron and drop it on the right of the get activity, connect the get activity with the post activity.
6. Right-click the get activity select Show Properties View.
7. In the Properties view, select the Input tab and click Show Check and Repair icon in the icon bar on the upper right corner of the Properties view.
8. Select the check box under Fix and click OK.
9. Click Show Check and Repair icon again.
10. Select the check box under Fix and click OK.
11. Select the post activity and right-click and select Show Properties View. In the Properties View, select the Input tab and select Data Source tab.
12. Expand $get in the Data Source tab completely.
13. In the XPath Expression pane, expand the post-input completely.
14. Drag and drop Book* from the Data Source tab to the Book* under post-input in the XPath Expression pane.
15. In the Drop dialog, select Make a copy of each "book" radio button and click Finish.
16. Click Show Check and Repair icon in the icon bar on the upper right corner of the Properties view.
17. Select the check box under Fix and click OK.
18. Click Show Check and Repair icon again. Select the check box under Fix and click OK.
19. In the Project Explorer, select Books.json under Service Descriptors of tibco.bw.sample.binding.rest.basic application module, and right-click Open With > Text Editor and locate the "host" attribute. Make a note of the host name and port number.

    

20. Expand the Resources folder under the tibco.bw.sample.binding.rest.basic application module.
21. Double-click HttpClientResource.httpClientResource.
22. In the HTTP Client section, change the Default Host and Default Port to the values in the Books.json file and select the Default Confidentiality check box.

    

23. Click File > Save All.

Testing the REST Reference