Each extension consists of client-side and server-side part. Client-side means resources, which are living inside client's browser, e.g. HTML, Javascript, CSS, images etc.

Server-side part, API endpoints, are executed on the server and can be called from the outside using HTTP request. 

When to create API endpoint

There are several situations, where you need a specific endpoint for your application:

Specification

An API Endpoint is Groovy/Java class compiled and executed on the server at runtime. It may use 3rd party JAR libraries provided as JAR resource inside the extension.

On the source code level, it's possible to use variety of classes and methods, including access to basic BellaDati objects and data - Data sets, Reports, Machine Learning.

API Endpoint is exposed to the outter world using HTTP server and is accepting HTTP GET, POST, DELETE and PUT requests.

Endpoint URL
http://belladati_host/extension/detail:endpoint/EXT_ID/ENDPOINT_NAME
http://belladati_host/ext/detail?id=EXT_ID&action=ENDPOINT_NAME


Structure

API Endpoint a class written is Groovy/Java and overriding doGet(), doPost(), doPut() and doDelete() methods. 

package com.belladati;
import com.belladati.extension.BaseExtensionEndpoint;
import org.apache.tapestry5.StreamResponse;
public class MyEndpoint extends BaseExtensionEndpoint {
	@Override
	public StreamResponse doGet() {
		String text = "GET method called with parameter: " + getParameter("say")
		return createStreamResponse(text, "text/plain", 200)
	}
	@Override
	public StreamResponse doPost() {
		String text = "POST method called with parameter: " + getParameter("say")
		return createStreamResponse(text, "text/plain", 200)
	}
}

Types whitelist

Beside types and packages below, all types and packages from provided JAR library are on white list too.

DecimalFormat.class, NumberFormat.class, LocalDate.class, LocalTime.class, DateTime.class, Arrays.class, ArrayUtils.class, SystemOutputInterceptor.class, Integer.class, Long.class, Double.class, Float.class, BigDecimal.class, String.class, StringUtils.class, JSON.class, JSONObject.class, JSONArray.class, Filter.class, OperationType.class, Map.class
Package name
java.util
java.util.regex
org.apache.commons.logging
com.belladati.json