External Data AccessWith jQuery and AJAX

Doncho Minkov

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Table of Contents RESTful Web Services XML, JSON, RSS Consuming REST with jQuery Consuming Twitter REST with jQuery

Twitter @Anywhere Twitter @Anywhere Features Facebook API

RESTful Web ServicesLightweight Architecture for Web

Services

What is REST?

"Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

Application state and functionality are resources

Every resource has an URI All resources share a uniform

interface This natively maps to the HTTP

protocol

RESTful Services One URI for a resource, multiple operations Add a new document "RestTalk" in

category "Code" PUT http://mysite.com/docs/Code/RestTalk

Get the document / some page GET http://mysite.com/docs/Code/RestTalk

GET http://mysite.com/docs/Code/RestTalk/pages/3

Remove the document DELETE http://

mysite.com/docs/Code/RestTalk

Retrieve metadata HEAD http://mysite.com/docs/Code/RestTalk

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XML, JSON, RSSComparing the Common Service Data

Formats

XML XML is markup-language for encoding documents in machine-readable form Text-based format

Consists of tags, attributes and content

Provide data and meta-data in the same time

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<?xml version="1.0"?><library> <book><title>HTML 5</title><author>Bay Ivan</author></book> <book><title>WPF 4</title><author>Microsoft</author></book> <book><title>WCF 4</title><author>Kaka Mara</author></book> <book><title>UML 2.0</title><author>Bay Ali</author></book></library>

JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

Standard for representing simple data structures and associative arrays

Lightweight text-based open standard

Derived from the JavaScript language

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{ "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "age": 25, "address": { "streetAddress": "33 Alex. Malinov Blvd.", "city": "Sofia", "postalCode": "10021" }, "phoneNumber": [{ "type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234"}, { "type": "fax", "number": "646 555-4567" }]},{ "firstName": "Bay", "lastName": "Ivan", "age": 79 }

RSS

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Family of Web feed formats for

publishing frequently updated works E.g. blog entries, news headlines,

videos, etc.

Based on XML, with standardized XSD schema

RSS documents (feeds) are list of items Each containing title, author,

publish date, summarized text, and metadata

Atom protocol aimed to enhance / replace RSS

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RSS – Example

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel> <title>W3Schools Home Page</title> <link>http://www.w3schools.com</link> <description>Free web building tutorials</description> <item> <title>RSS Tutorial</title> <link>http://www.w3schools.com/rss</link> <description>New RSS tutorial on W3Schools</description> </item> <item> <title>XML Tutorial</title> <link>http://www.w3schools.com/xml</link> <description>New XML tutorial on W3Schools</description> </item></channel></rss>

Consuming REST with jQuery

How To Make It Work?

Consuming REST With jQuery

Can be done with three methods $.ajax(…)

$.get(…)

$.post(…)

$.get(…) and $.post(…) use $.ajax(…) under the hood

These methods load data from the server Using rest service

Return JSON, Atom, RSS

Example of $.ajax(…)

$.ajax({url: "RestService.svc/students/all",type: "GET", timeout: 5000, dataType: "json",success: function (students) {

$('#loadStudentsButton').html("students loaded");

// do something with the students data// visualize them, etc…

} error: function (err) { $('#loadStudentsButton').html("error: " + err.status); }});

The path of the REST Service(should be on the same

server)

Request type ('GET' or 'POST')

The type of data to expect(JSON,XML)

In case the request is successful

In case the request is unsuccessful

Example of jQuery.ajax(…) get request

Example of $.ajax(…)

$.ajax({url: "RestService.svc/students/new",type: "POST",timeout: 5000,contentType: "application/json",data: JSON.stringify(student),success: function () {

$('#createStudentButton').html("student created");

//reload the students},error: function (err) {

$('#createStudentButton').html("error: " + err.status);

}});

The type of data to sent to

the server (JSON, XML)

We have a student object (in JSON) and should make it readable for the server

Example of jQuery.ajax(…) post request

Consuming Our REST

with jQueryLive Demo

Consuming Twitter REST

with jQueryLets Make Our Own Twitter?

Twitter Rest API First lets get familiar with the Twitter REST API We are given a set of methods to

Get a number of tweets for a given user

Post a tweet using jQuery

Search tweets

Etc…

First need to register a twitter app

Twitter Rest API (2) Registering a Twitter App

Go to http://dev.twitter.com Register a App

When your app is registered you get: Consumer key

The key your app authorizes with

Consumer secret Used for user authentication

Methods of Twitter REST API

GET statuses/user_timeline Returns the 20 most recent

statuses posted by the authenticating user

It is also possible to request another user's timeline by using The screen_name or user_id

parameter

The other users timeline will only be visible if they are not protected If the authenticating user's follow

request was

Example of $.ajax(…)

$.ajax({url : https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/"+user+".json?callback=?"dataType : "json", timeout:5000, success : function(data) {

//Visualize Tweets},error : function() { //Visualize Errors},

});

Getting Tweets from Twitter with jQuery

TweetsLive Demo

Twitter @AnywhereHow To Make It Easy?

What is Twitter @Anywhere? An easy-to-deploy solution

Bringing the Twitter communication platform

Promotes a more engaged user base

Can be used to add Follow Buttons, Hovercards, linkify

Twitter usernames

Build integrations with "Connect to Twitter"

Example of $.ajax(…)

How to Use @Anywhere?

With a registered App at dev.twitter.com You get a AppId

In the head part of the app include

With anywhere.js included A twttr object and an anywhere

function Used to make the magic with

anywhere

<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?id=YOUR_APP_ID&v=1"></script>

@Anywhere ExampleLive Demos

Search Widget

new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'search', search: , interval: 300, title: 'It\'s a double rainbow', subject: 'Across the sky', width: 250, height: 300, theme: {

shell: {background:'#70fd90',color: '#000000'}, tweets: {background: '#c6fec7', color: '#444444', links:

'#1985b5'}},features: {

scrollbar: true,loop: true,live: true,behavior: 'default'

}}).render().start();

Tweets List Widget

new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'profile', search: , interval: 300, title: 'It\'s a double rainbow', subject: 'Across the sky', width: 250, height: 300, theme: {

shell: {background:'#70fd90',color: '#000000'}, tweets: {background: '#c6fec7', color: '#444444', links:

'#1985b5'}},features: {

scrollbar: true,loop: true,live: true,behavior: 'default'

}}).render().start();

Twitter WidgetsLive Demo

Twitter @Anywhere Features

Login/Logout, Tweet, etc.

Login – Logout

twttr.anywhere(function (T) {T("#login").connectButton({ authComplete: function(user) {

//something to do after authentication

},});

});

Login:

function logOut(){

twttr.anywhere.signOut(); }

Logout

Login/LogoutLive Demo

Features

Tweet Boxtwttr.anywhere(function (T) { T("#tbox").tweetBox();});

Follow Buttontwttr.anywhere(function (T) { T('#follow-donchominkov').followButton("donchominkov");});

Twitter @AnywhereLive Demo

Facebook APILets Play a Little with Facebook

Facebook JavaScript SDK

Facebook provides a SDK for JavaScript To use the functionality of Facebook

Should register an app Through phone number

With credit card

Absolutely free Made for precautions

Facebook APILive Demo

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