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A (XPages) developers guide to Cloudant - MeetIT
- 1. A (XPages) developers guide to Cloudant Frank van der Linden @flinden68
- 2. About me • Freelance Full stack Java developer, with XPages experience • Curious of new technology • Owner of elstar IT • Former IBM Champion (2013, 2014)
- 3. Roadmap • Why Cloudant • Introduction to Cloudant • Inside Cloudant • Connect to Cloudant • Cloudant @ XPages
- 4. Why Cloudant
- 5. Why Cloudant • For HR Assistant we wanted to use a different datastore
- 7. What is Cloudant • It is the cloud version of CouchDb • CouchDb is created by Damien Katz • Cloudant is bought by IBM • It is document based • Is like MongoDb or NSF a NoSQL datastore
- 8. What is Cloudant • Data stored as JSON • View and Search ‘formula’ with javascript • Replication • Tasks • Build in API • No annoying limitations
- 9. Cloudant as service • Cloudant can be added as service in BlueMix
- 10. Cloudant standalone • Via website cloudant.com
- 11. Inside Cloudant
- 12. Inside Cloudant
- 13. Inside Cloudant • View mapping • Search index
- 15. Connect to Cloudant • Direct via REST • https://someusername:secret@account.cloudant.com • Via a OSGi Plugin, uses the HTTPConnection • https://bitbucket.org/flinden68/cloudant-connector
- 16. Connect to Cloudant • Credentials • Account, necessary for the OSGi plugin
- 17. Connect to Cloudant • It is JSON everywhere • _rev and _id, reserved parameters • doc{}, is the actual data from application
- 18. Cloudant connector • Storing in and retrieving from Cloudant • Can be accessed from Java backend. • Will take out the security issues. • Do the heavy lifting. Don't reinvent the wheel. • https://bitbucket.org/flinden68/cloudant-connector
- 22. Cloudant @ XPages • Repeat in XPages • Columns - values from Job class
- 23. Cloudant @ XPages • JobController - getJobs
- 24. Cloudant @ XPages • Job Java Class
- 25. Cloudant @ XPages • CloudantDAO
- 26. Cloudant @ XPages • CloudantService - connect • Find the data in Cloudant
- 27. Cloudant @ XPages • Job JSON in Cloudant
- 28. Attachment @ Cloudant • Stored as base64 encoded String • Can be as standalone • Or as part of Document (we choose this way) • Store id as attachmentId, so it can be retrieved when needed
- 29. Attachment @ Cloudant • AttachmentDAO
- 30. Attachment @ Cloudant • AttachmentController • Convert upload to Attachment object
- 31. Attachment @ Cloudant • ControllerBase • All controllers can use these methods
- 32. Attachment @ Cloudant • Servlet is called in application for download • base64 data for the image tag
- 33. RichText @ Cloudant • Stored as MultiMimePart
- 34. RichText @ Cloudant • Which is nice converted to JSON ;-)
- 35. Search @ Cloudant • Cloudant job ftSearch index
- 36. Search @ Cloudant • Search example, filter the view
- 37. Search @ Cloudant • Do the search in the Controller, call DAO
- 38. Search @ Cloudant • Search method calls the CloudantService
- 39. Search @ Cloudant • CloudantService calls connector to get the data
- 40. Resources • OSGi Cloudant connector • https://bitbucket.org/flinden68/cloudant-connector • Cloudant documentation • https://docs.cloudant.com/ • HR Assistant • hrassistant.eu-gb.mybluemix.net • github.com/flinden68/HR-Assistant
- 42. Thank you