Groovy Series 5 : Interacting with external web services
Though this feature came in last year and I have been a bit late in writing about, I thought it would be still worth making a record of the same to help me (and others if people are reading) to make use of the same. T he update to EPBCS (though it no longer is PBCS or EPBCS, let’s just stick to it to symbolise it as availability of Groovy) , Oracle had made its Groovy features more powerful by adding an ability to interact with external web services. What this means is, we can now do HTTP GET or POST with external webservices. If you like to know more about the methods, you can check W3School . In Groovy API, we have Get(), Post(), Delete() and Put(), which do majority of the tasks. A very basic example would be the ability to update FX rates into our application in an automated way. Usually this is one of the forecast preparation tasks for finance users to ensure FX rates are updated and they might be crunching these rates manually to put in an average or current value. I will be usin...