In terms of functional hierarchy on the Vahana platform, the API module is placed under the vDesigner module. Like other widget-based functionalities, such as business rule manager, task group, and others, it is also a full-fledged widget. It allows you to consume a vConnect portal-incorporated API and then create its instance at the application-level. You… Continue reading Accessing API Module
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An Introduction to API
The vDesigner module contains the API module as a first level functionality. The API module allows you to access the list of all APIs that have been configured on the vConnect portal. After you access the list of APIs, you can select an API from the list and then create its instance by using the… Continue reading An Introduction to API
Page
Under Inventory section, this category displays the list of earlier created pages. In the list, it displays the following page-related details: Column Name Description ID It displays a unique numeric value, which can be referred to as a page ID. The unique page ID is a unique identifier to manage the page at the app… Continue reading Page
An Introduction to Inventory
In the vFlow 2.0 module, the Inventory section primarily displays the list of different entities category-wise at the app level. The Inventory section contains the following categories: After you click a category (for example, Pages), the middle panel displays a list of different pages that have been added to the app. It also allows you… Continue reading An Introduction to Inventory
Webview URL
You can also configure the “Webview URL” data source for data manipulation at the application level. The webview component is a mobile app-integrated browser utility that has limited web browser capability. When you configure the Webview URL data source, you can use the HTTP and HTTPS protocol schemes. While configuring Webview URL data source, you… Continue reading Webview URL
URL
You can use the “URL” data source to get the data from a URL. By using the URL data source, you can only issue the GET request. To configure the URL, you need to use the HTTP and HTTPS schemes. After the application sends the request to the configured URL, it gets the required data… Continue reading URL
Mock
The “Mock” data source contains a dummy code. You can use this dummy code for the testing purpose. When you test the dummy code, you ensure that the dummy code is invoked correctly. In multiple scenarios, the application developer uses the dummy code to test the component and observe how the component will look after… Continue reading Mock
Object
The “Object” data source uses the reflection technique to create instances of business objects. By using the reflection technique, related methods are invoked to perform the update, retrieve, insert, and delete operations. You need to choose the “Object” data source if the data object contains the data. The Object data source is used to fetch… Continue reading Object
Online
You can use this mechanism when you want to get the data from an API. The API is configured on the vConnect module. To know more about the API configuration, you can visit vConnect posts under Integration category. When you want to configure a data source by using the online mechanism, you need to provide… Continue reading Online
An Introduction to Data Source
On the Vahana platform, the data source is an application-supporting functionality that fetches the data from the middleware and then sends it to an entity. The entity is a JSON object. Thus, the entity populates the data on the related application page. To send the data to the entity, you can use one of the… Continue reading An Introduction to Data Source