Simple REST API (Page 1 of 2)

Thanks a lot!

Wikied it.

It now places FA on par with webERP in one critical aspect. It also paves the way for POS connector, etc.,.

Thanks Janusz, Wikied that link as well.

Updated the SimpleAPIModule Wiki page with a read example that can be executed from an external server.

I just started working on this features for the API
GET /customers/:id/branches --> Get a list of customers branches where customer id = :id
GET /suppliers/:id/contacts --> Get a list of supplier contacts where supllier id = :id
POST /inventoryadjustments/ --> Create a new inventory adjustment ( can contain multiple items )

Then the roadmap will be:
GET /salesquotes/:id --> Get sales quote info
GET /salesorders/:id --> Get sales order info
POST /salesorders/ --> Create new sales order

NOTE: I am not using PUT requests, i replaced PUT requests with POST using id as parameter. I know this is not standard REST but works for me now, maybe in the future i can change it.

Hi again. Just wanted to keep you informed, i just publish some commits that now contains this methods in the API

GET /customers/:id/branches --> Get a list of customers branches where customer id = :id
GET /suppliers/:id/contacts --> Get a list of supplier contacts where supllier id = :id
GET /currencies/ --> Get a list fo currencies
GET /exrate/:id --> Get the latest currency rate with home currency where id = currency_code
GET /itemcosts/:id --> Get the standard cost of an item where id = :id
POST /itemcosts/:id --> Update the standard cost of an item where id = :id

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Sorry about that, i just push the change to github.

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As soon as i got some time i can work on an example client, probably using this: http://phphttpclient.com/ but for a quick testing you can use this: https://code.google.com/p/rest-client/ it is a REST Client, i am actually using this to test the Simple REST API.

About the POST and DELETE that depends on the HTTP Method used on the request, i wrote in a previous post that i am not using PUT requests this is not the standard REST and soon i am going to change it. You can get more information about CRUD operations in a REST API here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete

Also i want to comment that if any of you remember webERP they started some years ago to implement a JAVA POS using an API, they used synPOS, and maybe we can use this same POS (i have the source code) to create a POS system for FrontAccounting using Simple REST API and synPOS.

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Hi,
I'm the creator of PosXp, I came across this thread and from what I understood you are talking of an API to exchange data via HTTP with the frontaccounting db.
I just would like to let you know that posxp has a data layer library to permit interfacing with any data provider different from the default one which is a SQL compact db.
So you can easily rewrite this layer to interface with the software.
Regards

Alberto

yes of course I've tried
I remember that I was able to run it, but if I remember well controls were a bit crashed, something to do with spacing etc....
Anyway my conclusion was that it was not sufficiently good.
Also the software was created to be a cash register OS over wepos/windows embedded, so it's just too much distorting to run it on windows desktop too.
I'm a linux fan either but for POS applications windows it's a better choice, also for pos devices.
On linux the only alternative would be Java and Java POS for devices but java GUIs are horrible and the software it's designed to be completely used with touch screen so I made myself draggable listboxes etc....

SimpleAPI Module Wiki Page has been updated with a full test access script set for remote FA server access.

Thanks for this. I'll change it as soon as possible and let you know.

Andres

The account numbers for the Journal Entries are hardcoded in inventory.inc - lines 321-323 are:

             // TODO Obtener cuentas contra las cuales hacer asientos
             $_SESSION['gl_items']->add_gl_item('1510', 0, 0, ($info['quantity']*$info['standard_cost']*-1), $info['memo']); // Cta de Inventario del Producto
             $_SESSION['gl_items']->add_gl_item('4010', 0, 0, ($info['quantity']*$info['standard_cost']), $info['memo']); // Cta Configurada para Obsolteos, Propios, etc ...

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