SOAP, REST and Websockets

[amith1990]

Hi 

We have SOAP and REST API options using which we can trigger process/get useful info from blueprism from external applications. 

Has anyone tried WebSocket?. I know its mainly used for real time communication but couldnt find any websocket related content in BP community or Digital exchange. 

If anyone is aware, please help with some useful links to start with websocket in BP. 

thank you ! 

Amith 

[david.l.morris]

I don't know anything about websockets, so maybe it's pointless for me to respond, but I've typed words so it's too late now. 😃

What kind of information are you trying to get from Blue Prism? There are multiple ways to get info about the running of Blue Prism, such as Data Gateways to push the data from Blue Prism out to some other repository. There is also the good ol' fashioned way of just querying the Blue Prism database, though Blue Prism recommends not querying the live DB and instead querying a mirror of it. In practice, I think you can do quite a few queries of your own against the DB without any issues. There's also the Blue Prism REST API, though that does require you set up the components required for it to work like auth server or whatever it requires. There are CLI commands using AutomateC and also Resource commands that I think are HTTP.

Anyway, I feel like there are likely other ways to get the information you need, and I am fairly certain that this websockets sorcery you speak of isn't supported in Blue Prism. I say this mostly because I have never heard someone suggest it, and I couldn't find anything about it in the BP documentation outside of things like browser communication.

[amith1990]

Ha ha , Thanks @david.l.morris . Yes I too havent heard anything about the sorcery websockets feature in Blueprism. But I heard that it is the newest trend used for real time communication.

got to know from a vlogger that REST APIs are like sending a letter and WebSockets are like making a phone call!. 

So was checking if anything like this got added as a feature to BP recently or not. 

I too prefer REST APIs. do you have any user guides or any documents available, which can help us to setup the REST APIs ?

Best REgards,

Amith

[david.l.morris]

I have never set up the Blue Prism API myself. If you don't already have someone available with the knowledge, then https://docs.blueprism.com/en-US/bundle/blue-prism-enterprise-7-4/page/Guides/infrastructure-reference/blue-prism-api.htm would be a good place to start looking into it. And then you may want to engage Blue Prism directly perhaps Professional Services or whoever to help with the setup as I think it is somewhat complex to deal with the authentication server and hub and what not.