Expression Engine and Webservices

Welcome to the forums.

I know nothing about Java, what sort of “middleware” are you looking for, if you can give an example of what you’re trying to achieve that might help with an answer.

Just in case https://devot-ee.com/add-ons/entry-api

How would Expression Engine make a call to a webservice? Is there some “middleware” code that would need developed? Also, based on the data returned from the service, if there is some business logic that needs to occur before displaying to the user, would this be done in some “middleware” code? We are looking at maybe getting off the Java platform for our site, and wanting to use Expression Engine, but I’m assuming there would need to be some sort of “middleware” code that sits between the webservice and the front-end Expression Engine code/

Thanks!

Have a look at http://reinos.nl/expressionengine/webservice/overview - an addon that might do what you need.

Typically if the remote service is providing the data you could import that data into ExpressionEngine channel, then output to the front end. Otherwise if EE provides the data you can easily write things like JSON/XML etc templates to provide the web service.

There’s lots of ways of approaching it, but it really depends exactly what you want to do.

That’s more for providing webservices for others to consume from Express Engine, isn’t it? I’m more interested in the other way, where Expression Engine makes a call to a webservice, and receives the data back, and does some processing. Where would all of that happen if we used Expression Engine? This is what I’m referring to with the word “middleware”. For example, data is returned from the webservice, but some business logic needs to be done with that data before the page is displayed.

thanks!

Rait,

In that case you would develop an Add-on. If we are talking REST, SOAP APIs, it’s easily done with standard PHP and a custom Add-on.