IFS REST Call in Workflows

Hi Stefan.

I’m afraid that your requirement doesn’t depend on IFS Cloud functionality. You are calling a 3rd party system using the IFS REST delegate. It is the 3rd party API that you are calling the one that should provide you with a way for creating resources in one single call.

The way IFS Cloud allows to create multiple records using one single call is standard OData batch mechanism.

Here is the standard documentation:
https://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-version-3-0/batch-processing/

Here is the specific IFS Cloud documentation:
https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/23r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/100_odata_provider/700_batch_requests/

But remember, the documentation above is only valid in case you wanted to call IFS Cloud from a 3rd party system. This is not your case; you are calling a 3rd party system from IFS Cloud.

I hope you can check the OData batch mechanism with the 3rd party REST API provider and determine if it is possible to create mass data in one single call.

Thank you much.

Best regards.
Gonzalo.

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Hi Rifki,

as you can see in my screenshot I am using variables in the body of the REST call. For me it is not clear how I can do a batch transfer. I would like to send a structure like:

[
  {
    "Title": "aaa",
    "aoDelegateFrom": "",
  }
],
[
  {
    "Title": "bbb",
    "aoDelegateFrom": "",
  }
],
...

Best Regards

Stefan

Hi Stefan.

As we mentioned before, all depends on the API you are working with. Try to check their documentation to find out whether is possible or not to send that can of payload.

Usually a proper REST design would allow only one record to be created using POST action. In the same way you can only PATCH/PUT on a single record. Same applies to DELETE.

OData standard implements the batch concept. You can send multiple POSTs inside a single payload. Here is an example how it would look like:

Check if your REST API provider support this mechanism or similar.

Best regards.

Gonzalo.

@Gonzalo 

What you are writing is absolutely correct and I am aware of it. But my issue is, I am not able to create a request body in BPA with multiple records in it. It seems one REST-Call is always one record, otherwise I would need some kind of loop to create dynamically the request body. The amount of records is not static in my case and depends on the result set of the previous query.

Hope now it is more clear.

@Gonzalo 

Yes, it works. I were not aware that I can just put the variable in the message body and concatenate the string via JavaScript inside the loop.

Hi @FleStefSc 

Appreciate if could mark Gonzalo’s response as the answer to help others easily find a resolution to similar requirements