Generating a Published REST Resource

Introduction

You can publish a REST resource with basic operations based on an entity by right-clicking an entity in the domain model and selecting Expose as REST resource. Alternatively, you can drag an entity or message definition onto the list of resources of a published REST service. This page describes the options you have once you perform one of these actions.

REST Service

This only shows up when you click Expose as REST resource in the domain model. Next, choose a service in which to generate the resource and operation.

General

Resource Name

Type the name of the resource that you want to publish.

Key Attribute

To be able to create a Get by key, a Patch, or a Delete operation, there needs to be a unique attribute on the entity. Select that attribute here.

Operations

Select the checkbox for the operations that you want to generate:

• Get all – allows clients to get all the objects
• Get by key – allows clients to get an object, given its key
• Post – allows clients to add a new object
• Patch – allows clients to update an existing object
• Delete – allows clients to delete an existing object

When you click OK, the following items are created:

• A resource
• All the operations that you selected
• A microflow for each operation
• A message definition
• An import mapping (for the Post and Patch operations)
• An export mapping (for the Get all and Get by key operations)

If you have already created a message definition for the entity, that message definition will be reused. Existing import and export mappings based on that message definition will also be reused.