One of the real-life examples of ReST is the
BizTalk Server and ReST
In the previous section we saw how ReST is not SOAP and that ReST supports GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods. So,
if one has to use ReST with BizTalk Server, the adapter to be used should be able to:
Exchange
Support GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods.
If we look at the adapters available with BizTalk Server 2010, only the HTTP adapter satisfies the first criteria
but it does not support GET (it does support the POST method). Similarly, the webHttpBinding (that supports consuming and exposing ReSTful services) available with WCF-Custom adapter can send non-SOAP messages but that too has no way of specifying the HTTP
verb to be used. All other adapters either do not support HTTP verbs or always exchange SOAP messages. So, there is no way to have an out-of-box BizTalk configuration to consume a ReSTful service. To use BizTalk Server with ReST, we'll have to do some customizations
around HTTP adapter or the webHttpBinding of the WCF-Custom adapter. There is no prescribed way of doing customizations around the HTTP adapter. However, to the webHttpBinding, we can add some custom behaviors that when coupled with webHttpBinding enable BizTalk
users to invoke and consume ReSTful services. Through these customizations, we can specify the following: How to encode the request body and decode the response.
With WCF-Custom port configuration, there's no way of specifying these customizations directly on the webHttpBinding.
So, we'll have to put these values in the request message. After specifying the values as part of the request message and adding a custom behavior to the webHttpBinding, when the request message hits the WCF-Custom port with the webHttpBinding, the custom
behavior extracts the values from the request message and frames the required HTTP transport.
Now let us talk a little bit about the customization that would be required on the webHttpBinding. webHttpBinding
is WCF-based. WCF enables you to alter messages before they are sent or after they are received through
So, to sum it up, to consume a ReSTful service with BizTalk Server, this is what we need to do:
Scenario for this Article
In this article, we will use one of the Twitter ReST APIs that give us the
Coming back to the scenario, the uber scenario for this article includes dropping a request message in a folder and
out comes the list of tweets (for a public timeline or for a given user) in an e-mail. However, if you break this down into stages, this is what the scenario would look like:
In this article, we will use one of the Twitter ReST APIs that give us the
Coming back to the scenario, the uber scenario for this article includes dropping a request message in a folder and
out comes the list of tweets (for a public timeline or for a given user) in an e-mail. However, if you break this down into stages, this is what the scenario would look like:
In this article, we will use one of the Twitter ReST APIs that give us the
Coming back to the scenario, the uber scenario for this article includes dropping a request message in a folder and
out comes the list of tweets (for a public timeline or for a given user) in an e-mail. However, if you break this down into stages, this is what the scenario would look like:
In this article, we will use one of the Twitter ReST APIs that give us the
Coming back to the scenario, the uber scenario for this article includes dropping a request message in a folder and
out comes the list of tweets (for a public timeline or for a given user) in an e-mail. However, if you break this down into stages, this is what the scenario would look like:
In this article, we will use one of the Twitter ReST APIs that give us the
Coming back to the scenario, the uber scenario for this article includes dropping a request message in a folder and
out comes the list of tweets (for a public timeline or for a given user) in an e-mail. However, if you break this down into stages, this is what the scenario would look like:
In this article, we will use one of the Twitter ReST APIs that give us the
Coming back to the scenario, the uber scenario for this article includes dropping a request message in a folder and
out comes the list of tweets (for a public timeline or for a given user) in an e-mail. However, if you break this down into stages, this is what the scenario would look like:
BizTalk Server and ReST
In the previous section we saw how ReST is not SOAP and that ReST supports GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods. So,
if one has to use ReST with BizTalk Server, the adapter to be used should be able to:
Exchange
Support GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods.
If we look at the adapters available with BizTalk Server 2010, only the HTTP adapter satisfies the first criteria
but it does not support GET (it does support the POST method). Similarly, the webHttpBinding (that supports consuming and exposing ReSTful services) available with WCF-Custom adapter can send non-SOAP messages but that too has no way of specifying the HTTP
verb to be used. All other adapters either do not support HTTP verbs or always exchange SOAP messages. So, there is no way to have an out-of-box BizTalk configuration to consume a ReSTful service. To use BizTalk Server with ReST, we'll have to do some customizations
around HTTP adapter or the webHttpBinding of the WCF-Custom adapter. There is no prescribed way of doing customizations around the HTTP adapter. However, to the webHttpBinding, we can add some custom behaviors that when coupled with webHttpBinding enable BizTalk
users to invoke and consume ReSTful services. Through these customizations, we can specify the following: How to encode the request body and decode the response.
With WCF-Custom port configuration, there's no way of specifying these customizations directly on the webHttpBinding.
So, we'll have to put these values in the request message. After specifying the values as part of the request message and adding a custom behavior to the webHttpBinding, when the request message hits the WCF-Custom port with the webHttpBinding, the custom
behavior extracts the values from the request message and frames the required HTTP transport.
BizTalk Server and ReST
In the previous section we saw how ReST is not SOAP and that ReST supports GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods. So,
if one has to use ReST with BizTalk Server, the adapter to be used should be able to:
Exchange
Support GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods.
If we look at the adapters available with BizTalk Server 2010, only the HTTP adapter satisfies the first criteria
but it does not support GET (it does support the POST method). Similarly, the webHttpBinding (that supports consuming and exposing ReSTful services) available with WCF-Custom adapter can send non-SOAP messages but that too has no way of specifying the HTTP
verb to be used. All other adapters either do not support HTTP verbs or always exchange SOAP messages. So, there is no way to have an out-of-box BizTalk configuration to consume a ReSTful service. To use BizTalk Server with ReST, we'll have to do some customizations
around HTTP adapter or the webHttpBinding of the WCF-Custom adapter. There is no prescribed way of doing customizations around the HTTP adapter. However, to the webHttpBinding, we can add some custom behaviors that when coupled with webHttpBinding enable BizTalk
users to invoke and consume ReSTful services. Through these customizations, we can specify the following: How to encode the request body and decode the response.
With WCF-Custom port configuration, there's no way of specifying these customizations directly on the webHttpBinding.
So, we'll have to put these values in the request message. After specifying the values as part of the request message and adding a custom behavior to the webHttpBinding, when the request message hits the WCF-Custom port with the webHttpBinding, the custom
behavior extracts the values from the request message and frames the required HTTP transport.
BizTalk Server and ReST
In the previous section we saw how ReST is not SOAP and that ReST supports GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods. So,
if one has to use ReST with BizTalk Server, the adapter to be used should be able to:
Exchange
Support GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods.
If we look at the adapters available with BizTalk Server 2010, only the HTTP adapter satisfies the first criteria
but it does not support GET (it does support the POST method). Similarly, the webHttpBinding (that supports consuming and exposing ReSTful services) available with WCF-Custom adapter can send non-SOAP messages but that too has no way of specifying the HTTP
verb to be used. All other adapters either do not support HTTP verbs or always exchange SOAP messages. So, there is no way to have an out-of-box BizTalk configuration to consume a ReSTful service. To use BizTalk Server with ReST, we'll have to do some customizations
around HTTP adapter or the webHttpBinding of the WCF-Custom adapter. There is no prescribed way of doing customizations around the HTTP adapter. However, to the webHttpBinding, we can add some custom behaviors that when coupled with webHttpBinding enable BizTalk
users to invoke and consume ReSTful services. Through these customizations, we can specify the following: How to encode the request body and decode the response.
With WCF-Custom port configuration, there's no way of specifying these customizations directly on the webHttpBinding.
So, we'll have to put these values in the request message. After specifying the values as part of the request message and adding a custom behavior to the webHttpBinding, when the request message hits the WCF-Custom port with the webHttpBinding, the custom
behavior extracts the values from the request message and frames the required HTTP transport.
BizTalk Server and ReST
In the previous section we saw how ReST is not SOAP and that ReST supports GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods. So,
if one has to use ReST with BizTalk Server, the adapter to be used should be able to:
Exchange
Support GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods.
If we look at the adapters available with BizTalk Server 2010, only the HTTP adapter satisfies the first criteria
but it does not support GET (it does support the POST method). Similarly, the webHttpBinding (that supports consuming and exposing ReSTful services) available with WCF-Custom adapter can send non-SOAP messages but that too has no way of specifying the HTTP
verb to be used. All other adapters either do not support HTTP verbs or always exchange SOAP messages. So, there is no way to have an out-of-box BizTalk configuration to consume a ReSTful service. To use BizTalk Server with ReST, we'll have to do some customizations
around HTTP adapter or the webHttpBinding of the WCF-Custom adapter. There is no prescribed way of doing customizations around the HTTP adapter. However, to the webHttpBinding, we can add some custom behaviors that when coupled with webHttpBinding enable BizTalk
users to invoke and consume ReSTful services. Through these customizations, we can specify the following: How to encode the request body and decode the response.
With WCF-Custom port configuration, there's no way of specifying these customizations directly on the webHttpBinding.
So, we'll have to put these values in the request message. After specifying the values as part of the request message and adding a custom behavior to the webHttpBinding, when the request message hits the WCF-Custom port with the webHttpBinding, the custom
behavior extracts the values from the request message and frames the required HTTP transport.
BizTalk Server and ReST
In the previous section we saw how ReST is not SOAP and that ReST supports GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods. So,
if one has to use ReST with BizTalk Server, the adapter to be used should be able to:
Exchange
Support GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods.
If we look at the adapters available with BizTalk Server 2010, only the HTTP adapter satisfies the first criteria
but it does not support GET (it does support the POST method). Similarly, the webHttpBinding (that supports consuming and exposing ReSTful services) available with WCF-Custom adapter can send non-SOAP messages but that too has no way of specifying the HTTP
verb to be used. All other adapters either do not support HTTP verbs or always exchange SOAP messages. So, there is no way to have an out-of-box BizTalk configuration to consume a ReSTful service. To use BizTalk Server with ReST, we'll have to do some customizations
around HTTP adapter or the webHttpBinding of the WCF-Custom adapter. There is no prescribed way of doing customizations around the HTTP adapter. However, to the webHttpBinding, we can add some custom behaviors that when coupled with webHttpBinding enable BizTalk
users to invoke and consume ReSTful services. Through these customizations, we can specify the following: How to encode the request body and decode the response.
With WCF-Custom port configuration, there's no way of specifying these customizations directly on the webHttpBinding.
So, we'll have to put these values in the request message. After specifying the values as part of the request message and adding a custom behavior to the webHttpBinding, when the request message hits the WCF-Custom port with the webHttpBinding, the custom
behavior extracts the values from the request message and frames the required HTTP transport.
