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Webservice Registration

Overview
With this feature you can pull data from any JSON or SOAP enabled service, for example from Yahoo:
To access
Click the Webservice Registration icon on the Admin Panel
or
Access http://example.org/tiki-admin.php?page=webservices
Note
This feature is mainly useful for the Webservice Plugin



Option Description Default
Web services Can receive web services via JSON or YAML. Disabled
Default cache Cache time in seconds to use if the webservice does not supply "max-age" or "no-cache" in the response. 300 seconds
Option Description Default
Web services Can receive web services via JSON or YAML. Disabled
Default cache Cache time in seconds to use if the webservice does not supply "max-age" or "no-cache" in the response. 300 seconds
Option Description Default
Web services Can receive web services via JSON or YAML. Disabled
Default cache Cache time in seconds to use if the webservice does not supply "max-age" or "no-cache" in the response. 300 seconds


Example

Webservice returning JSON.

  1. In the "url" field enter:
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    http://luciash.eu/paypal_balance_conversion_in_json.php?amount_in=%amount_in%¤cy_in=%currency_in%¤cy_out=%currency_out%
  2. In the "Type" dropdown leave "REST" selected.
  3. In the "Parameters" textarea fill in the parameters as:
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    %amount_in% %currency_in% %currency_out%
  4. Click "Lookup" button.

Now you can test the parameters.
You should see 3 new fields appear where you can enter the values to test.
Enter:

  1. amount_in: 2
  2. currency_in: EUR
  3. currency_out: USD

The returned data under the "Response Information" will be something like this:

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Array ( [amount_out_formatted] => 2.49 [from_currency_code] => USD [exchange_rate_formatted] => 1.24567 )

When tested you can save the Webservice under a name, e.g. paypalexchangerate (cannot contain anything else than letters) by clicking the "Register" button. Now you have registered Webservice called "paypalexchangerate" which you can use in PluginWebservice.

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