Web Services Designer Behavior

The Personify WSD allows you to perform the following:

·            Create new entities, including read/write, read-only, views, service parameters, associations, and service operations.

·            Modify existing entities

·            Delete existing entities

·            Compile and publish seamlessly

The fundamental responsibility of the Design Canvas is to provide the visual representation of the elements - Entities, Associations, and Service Operations. Each element has a unique shape, theme, and icons as described in the Designer Layout section.

Additionally, the Design Canvas also provides the following:

·            Visual representation of the relationships among the entities themselves and between service operations and entities.

·            Resizing of the elements.

·            Repositioning of the elements.

·            Expanding and Collapsing of Property Groups, wherever applicable.

·            Expanding and Collapsing of Entities.

·            Zooming of the entire canvas.

The primary purpose of the Personify WSD is not limited to providing the design surface for the developer to design web services. Additionally, it also:

·            Ensures that the elements are strongly bound to Personify APIs.

·            Honors the customizations done by customers by recognizing the Customer layer APIs.

·            Provides ability to configure and handle the API validation issues automatically.

·            Supports multi-level layering. With this, associations can extend base services (provided by TMA Resources).

·            Provides seamless upgrade - eliminates the hassle of manual retrofitting and merging.

·            Maintains the integrity among various layers – base, vendor, customer.

·            Provides source controlling. With this, developers can check-in, check-out, and rollback the changes. Also, it preserves the historical data.

·            Provides the ability to test the web services locally and publish on to the servers.

Entity

Entity layout:

1.    Entity Icon – indicates the type of entity.

2.    Entity Name – displays the name of the entity.

3.    Error icon – indicates that there is an error, warning or suggestion.

4.    Expand/Collapse Button – expands and collapse the entity.

5.    Property Icon – indicates the type of property.

6.    Properties – displays the properties that belong to that entity.

7.    Navigation Property Icon – indicates the Navigation property.

8.    Navigation Properties – displays the Navigation properties that belong to that entity.

In this section:

·            Starting the Web Services Designer

·            Designing Service Elements

o           Creating New Read/Write Entities

§            File Uploading via Read/Write Entities

o           Creating New Read-Only Entities

o           Creating New Entity Views

o           Creating New Service Parameters

o           Creating New Associations

o           Creating New Service Operations

·            Saving Web Services

·            Modifying Entities

·            Web Services Designer Filtering and Searching Elements

·            Web Services Designer Error Handling

·            Validating the Service Definitions

·            Modifying the Layer Name and Namespace

·            Utilizing the Visual Behaviors of the Canvas

·            Working with the Element Attributes (Properties Pane)

·            Configuring Personify API Validation Issues

·            Refreshing the Service Definitions

·            Enabling and Disabling Entities

·            Anonymous Data Services

·            Access Point Security

·            Exposing Data Services for Data Export / Import