Terms And Definitions: Integration
This article introduces the following terms and their definitions: Connection, Custom Handler, Endpoint, Generic Handlers, Fuuz Scripting Language, Pagination, and Transformation.
- Connection
- Custom Handler
- Endpoint
- Generic Handlers
- Fuuz Scripting Language
- Pagination
- Transformation
Connection
- This term describes a collection of settings, which result in a unique connection when used with an endpoint.
- Example: The username and password for the Plex environment are stored in the Connection and reference the Plex Test Endpoint.
Custom Handler
- This term describes a specific implementation of a generic handler used to communicate with a more commonly used API that requires more complicated authentication, pagination or repeated steps.
- Examples:
- Plex
- Zoho
- SAP
Endpoint
- This term describes a specific URL to an external API and the handler used to communicate with it.
- This endpoint can be used multiple times
- Example: Plex Test's URL is set in the endpoint and may have multiple connections, one for each tenant
Generic Handlers
- Generic handlers are used with standard integration endpoints, they do not require any additional implementation or support.
- HTTP - Unsecured communication to public APIs
- Example: Bank of Poland's Currency Exchange
- HTTPs - Secure communications to public APIs in which a customer has data
- Example: Shopify Orders
- FTP - Unsecured file transfer protocol
- FTPS - Secured file transfer protocol
- SFTP - Secured file transfer protocol
- SMTP - Secure or Unsecured email protocol
- Example: Office 365
Fuuz Scripting Language
- Fuuz's scripting language is an extension of the JSONata transformation language. Fuuz supports all of its base functions as well many additional functions written by our development team.
- This term describes automatically calling another API, which limits the number of rows being returned.
- Example: Calling Zoho 10 times to get 1,000 items per call until all 9,876 of them are returned
- This term describes the act of using the Fuuz Scripting Language to turn a piece of data from one format into another.
- Example: Turning XML data from Plex into a JSON format for Zoho
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