Server Administration Application – Configuring Data
Connectors
See also: Server Administration Application Home Page, Working with Data Connectors
Introduction
Data Connectors enable integration with a web service. These web services usually require some access credentials and some have different URLs for test and production environments. Hard coding these types of configuration information into the Data Connectors themselves makes them hard to move from a Test environment to a Production environment.
The Data Connector Configuration allows information about Data Connector’s connections to web services to be configured directly in the Verj.io Service Plan or On-Premises environment. This information can be looked up by Data Connectors and used to connect to the web service.
A Data Connector Configuration represents a name à value list of reusable properties that are specific for a Data Connector. The Data Connector configuration can be referenced from the Data Connector script using the JavaScript API, for example:
//get the Data
Connector configuration for the VehicleEnquiryService
var
config = connectors.getConfig("VehicleEnquiryService");
//get API key value
var
apiKey = config.apiKey;
var
baseURL = config.baseURL;
Data Connector Configurations are saved into the folder dataConnectors in the ebaseConf folder of the web application, e.g userdata/apps/<webappname>/ebaseConf/dataConnectors
Configuring Data Connectors
- Click
the
icon to create a new Data Connector
configuration - Click
the
icon to refresh the display - Click
the
icon to delete a Data Connector
configuration - Click on a Data Connector name to display or edit its properties
- Click Help on the menu at the top of the panel to display this help page
The meaning of the various columns shown above is explained in the next section.
Data Connector Configuration
The Data Connector configuration can be edited when either
creating a new Data Connector configuration using the icon or clicking on the name of an existing
Data Connector configuration.
|
Name |
The Data Connector configuration name. This is referred to in scripts that use the configuration. |
|
Description |
Meaningful information describing the Data Connectors purpose |
Data Connector Properties
To add a Data Connector property click the icon within the Data Connector Properties
section
|
Property Name |
The name of the Data Connector property. This name is used to reference the configuration value. |
|
Property Value |
The value for the property. |