Characteristics of API Calls

All API calls are:

  • Service requests and responses – Your client application prepares and submits a service request to the API, the API processes the request and returns a response, and the client application handles the response.
  • Synchronous – Once the API call is invoked, your client application waits until it receives a response from the service. Asynchronous calls are not supported.
  • Committed automatically – Every operation that writes to a TIBCO Reward object is committed automatically. This is analogous to the AUTOCOMMMIT setting in SQL.

For create, update, and delete calls that attempt to write to multiple records in an object, the write operation for each record is treated as a separate transaction. For example, if a client application attempts to create two new accounts, they’re created using mutually exclusive insert operations that succeed or fail individually, not as a group.