Restful Api For Ecommerce Module

[Abhishek Sharma]

Hi Team,

I am planning to integrate OFBiz eCommerce module with android native app.
OFBiz deals with HTTP request/response format but i want in JSON. Is there
any easy way out to achieve the target? Or any suggested approach (if JSON
not possible) to implement with android app?


Regards
Abhishek

[Michael Brohl-3]

Hi Abhishek,

there is a JSON response handler available in OFBiz, see
common-controller.xml:

     <request-map uri="json">
         <security direct-request="false"/>
         <event type="java" path="org.apache.ofbiz.common.CommonEvents"
invoke="jsonResponseFromRequestAttributes"/>
         <response name="success" type="none"/>
     </request-map>

You can find some examples how it's used in the request-controller
searching for

value="json"

in the controller.xml files.

It's also used in the ecommerce plugin.

Hope that helps,

regards,

Michael


Michael Brohl
Geschäftsführer

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Am 11.06.17 um 06:24 schrieb Abhishek Sharma:

> Hi Team,
>
> I am planning to integrate OFBiz eCommerce module with android native app.
> OFBiz deals with HTTP request/response format but i want in JSON. Is there
> any easy way out to achieve the target? Or any suggested approach (if JSON
> not possible) to implement with android app?
>
>
> Regards
> Abhishek
>

[Abhishek Sharma]

Thanks Michael for replying on this thread. What about the requests which
are served using Groovy? For example, the request "
https://localhost:8443/ecommerce/control/main" is served by groovy and ftl
to display the main page. How should i modify it to display the output in
android native app? Kindly suggest.

Regards
Abhishek

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Michael Brohl <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Hi Abhishek,
>
> there is a JSON response handler available in OFBiz, see
> common-controller.xml:
>
>     <request-map uri="json">
>         <security direct-request="false"/>
>         <event type="java" path="org.apache.ofbiz.common.CommonEvents"
> invoke="jsonResponseFromRequestAttributes"/>
>         <response name="success" type="none"/>
>     </request-map>
>
> You can find some examples how it's used in the request-controller
> searching for
>
> value="json"
>
> in the controller.xml files.
>
> It's also used in the ecommerce plugin.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
> Michael Brohl
> Geschäftsführer
>
> Fon   [phone]
> Fax   [phone]
> Mobil [phone]
> Xing  www.xing.com/profile/Michael_Brohl
>
> Company and Management Headquarters:
> ecomify GmbH, Meisenstraße 65, 33607 Bielefeld, Deutschland
> Fon: [phone], Fax: [phone], www.ecomify.de
>
> Court Registration: Amtsgericht Bielefeld HRB 41683
> Chief Executive Officer: Martin Becker, Michael Brohl
>
> Am 11.06.17 um 06:24 schrieb Abhishek Sharma:
>
> Hi Team,
>>
>> I am planning to integrate OFBiz eCommerce module with android native app.
>> OFBiz deals with HTTP request/response format but i want in JSON. Is there
>> any easy way out to achieve the target? Or any suggested approach (if JSON
>> not possible) to implement with android app?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Abhishek
>>
>>
>
>

[Michael Brohl-3]

Hi Abhishek,

I think this depends on what you want to achieve.

Do you want to receive data (in Json format) to be displayed by the
native UI of your app?

Or do you just want to display the pages as they are delivered from
standard OFBiz?

The ecommerce main page shows different data like categories, products,
special offers etc.. If you want to show it like it's shown in standard
OFBiz, you might want to simply use a browser widget to show the
contents in your app.

I'm pretty sure the default ecommerce UI is not responsive so you'll
have to change it.

If you want to display all these contents in a native app using your own
design, you'll have to get the different data sets (categories,
products, special offers etc.) with different requests to OFBiz which
have to return Json data. You will have to change or add requests to
receive the data and deliver it with the "json" request chained after them.

This is not available OOTB in OFBiz for all kind of data.

Regards,

Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH
www.ecomify.de


Am 11.06.17 um 12:53 schrieb Abhishek Sharma:

> Thanks Michael for replying on this thread. What about the requests which
> are served using Groovy? For example, the request "
> https://localhost:8443/ecommerce/control/main" is served by groovy and ftl
> to display the main page. How should i modify it to display the output in
> android native app? Kindly suggest.
>
> Regards
> Abhishek
>
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Michael Brohl <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Abhishek,
>>
>> there is a JSON response handler available in OFBiz, see
>> common-controller.xml:
>>
>>      <request-map uri="json">
>>          <security direct-request="false"/>
>>          <event type="java" path="org.apache.ofbiz.common.CommonEvents"
>> invoke="jsonResponseFromRequestAttributes"/>
>>          <response name="success" type="none"/>
>>      </request-map>
>>
>> You can find some examples how it's used in the request-controller
>> searching for
>>
>> value="json"
>>
>> in the controller.xml files.
>>
>> It's also used in the ecommerce plugin.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> Michael Brohl
>> Geschäftsführer
>>
>> Fon   [phone]
>> Fax   [phone]
>> Mobil [phone]
>> Xing  www.xing.com/profile/Michael_Brohl
>>
>> Company and Management Headquarters:
>> ecomify GmbH, Meisenstraße 65, 33607 Bielefeld, Deutschland
>> Fon: [phone], Fax: [phone], www.ecomify.de
>>
>> Court Registration: Amtsgericht Bielefeld HRB 41683
>> Chief Executive Officer: Martin Becker, Michael Brohl
>>
>> Am 11.06.17 um 06:24 schrieb Abhishek Sharma:
>>
>> Hi Team,
>>> I am planning to integrate OFBiz eCommerce module with android native app.
>>> OFBiz deals with HTTP request/response format but i want in JSON. Is there
>>> any easy way out to achieve the target? Or any suggested approach (if JSON
>>> not possible) to implement with android app?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Abhishek
>>>
>>>
>>