Introduction There might be situations when an external app needs to use Business Central web services but you don’t want it to access directly the BC web service. Instead we can have something like a “middle tier” app which does the following: – receives requests from external world, – sends requests to BC – receives…
Introduction I did not write on the blog for a long time because I was too busy working on projects and was not in the mood for blogging. But today I want to write about the new concept of abstraction introduced in AL in 2020: D365 Business Central interfaces. So, first what are interfaces and…
Introduction Recently I encountered the following situation in Business Central with Web Service that uses Pagination with Continuation Tokens: –> When you get data from Web Service and it returns a lot of results, the data is paginated. –> One method to handle pagination is using Continuation Tokens. –> For example, look at the below…
What is a Unix Time Stamp? As per Wikipedia, a Unix Time Stamp is a BigInteger value that represents the number of seconds that elapsed since the time 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. For example using this converter you can see that the Unix Time Stamp ‘1588400673’ represents date time ’05/02/2020 @ 6:24am (UTC)’.…
Introduction In this post I will explain a simple way to get XML and JSON Response from Web Service into Business Central Wave 2 database. Let’s use the Google Maps API to get the distance and driving time between 2 locations. We will send to the API 2 addresses: origin and destination. As a result,…
Because I didn’t write on the blog since a long time, today I will demonstrate how you can use the AL language in Microsoft Business Central to import data exposed by a REST Web Service in JSon format. As usual, I created a practical example to demonstrate better the concepts. What REST Web Service we…