DevForce Community Forum : Application API http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : DevForce 2010 : Application API Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:52:09 -700 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:43:35 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2048 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ Application API : Yes, but would you then expose... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2048&PID=8017#8017 Author: JST
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Posted: 06-Aug-2010 at 12:43am

Yes, but would you then expose these IB-entities to the client or should I create my own entities and populate them with data using IB? The latter of course being quite a bit of work (as there are quite a few entities).
 
Basically what should happen is that I hide the entitymanager for my client so all his calls are done using some repository class. This does mean my client should use .net 3.5 of 5 (depending on the IB version I use).
]]> Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:43:35 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2048&PID=8017#8017 Application API : Client APIs tend to be very specific... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2048&PID=8005#8005 Author: ting
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Posted: 05-Aug-2010 at 1:23pm

Client APIs tend to be very specific to the business rules, so it's hard for a generic framework to help out with the API definition.  It would be a great fit to use DevForce entities to implement the the service under the covers though, and these would be the same entities and busienss logic that can be shared with a Silverlight, WPF, or ASP.NET application.
]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:23:31 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2048&PID=8005#8005 Application API : Hi, Not sure wether this it... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2048&PID=7995#7995 Author: JST
Subject: 2048
Posted: 05-Aug-2010 at 7:04am

Hi,
 
Not sure wether this it the right place, but let's give it a try. Can I use DevForce to create an API that my clients can use to interact with my application/database? If so, what are the tips and tricks? If not, I guess I'll be building WCF webservices from scratch.
 
I'm thinking some 'repository' class for the client with some common functions and do the retrieval (and some security stuff and business ruling like filtering only those products that the client can retrieve) hidden using ideablade.
 
Any thoughts or suggestions on this?
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