PI REST Sender Adapter – Polling a REST API

[RafaelVieira]

Hi,

I have a scenario where I need to call a REST URL as follow:
http://<host>/rest/<service>/getVehiclesbyDateRange?key=%5Bhard_coded_key%5D&;beginDate=2016-12-09&endDate=2016-12-10

Begin and End date must be the same so the service would return the list of vehicles for that particular day, only.

Tricky part is that Begin/End Date must be automatically incremented in each day, always to get the current day’s vehicle list.

e.g:

Today (Dec 12), 12am, the REST Sender must poll:

http://<host>/rest/<service>/getVehiclesbyDateRange?key=%5Bhard_coded_key%5D&;beginDate=2016-12-12&endDate=2016-12-12

Tomorrow (Dec 13), 12am, the REST Sender must poll:

http://<host>/rest/<service>/getVehiclesbyDateRange?key=%5Bhard_coded_key%5D&;beginDate=2016-12-13&endDate=2016-12-13

...and so on.

Can anyone suggest how to achieve this in the REST Sender adapter?

I tried couple of other threads / questions like this one: PI Rest Adapter Polling a Rest API but none gave me a good idea of how to achieve this.

Tks!

[Harish]

Hi Rafael,

Please check the below discussion on the dynamic date in the rest URL, you can use the dynamic value generation as given in the discussion.

https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3761806

The other option is to generate the target URL from dynamic configuration (message mapping UDF). refer the below blog for dynamic configuration details

https://blogs.sap.com/2014/12/18/pi-rest-adapter-consuming-synchronous-restful-service/

regards,

Harish

[RafaelVieira]

Hello Harish,

Thanks for your input but if you see, the incremental token is allowed only once in the URL, and my requirement is to have it twice - one for Begin Date and one for End Date. So it does not apply to my need.

Your last suggestion also doesn't apply since I'm polling data from a REST SENDER, so there's no mapping involved before polling the API.

Has anyone another suggestion?

Tks!