Created Codeless API Service and Method >> Getting Service Method Not Found Error

Server Code Codeless
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Backendless Version (3.x / 6.x, Online / Managed / Pro )

Online

Application ID

EA7510A2-07EF-5A27-FF23-B4DAF9514900

Expected Behavior

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You can see everything in the screenshot. I just want to test a simple update method prior to diving into putting more code server-side but I am unable to run my method. Please advise.

There are 2 problems:

  1. How do I indicate that I want to search through the Post table. You can see that I used Get Data From Cache method, but I don’t think that’s right. I have a Post Table, I want to get the entries as a list and iterate through them. OR is there another way that I can do a Query based on the Post ID that I pass in as a parameter from the REST call?

  2. Trying to run the method results in the 400 - Service method not found error.

Thanks.

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Hi @Carlton_Branch,

I changed the endpoint URL path so it is /Post/ReportPost (without the trailing slash) and now the method can be invoked. The method fails since there are no items in cache, but you can definitely invoke it.

Regards,
Mark

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Hi Mark,
Thanks for the quick reply. How can I put the items in the cache? That’s the other part I don’t understand. If I have a Post table and I want to iterate through them and perform some action on a record, how do I get a list of records?

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EDIT: Looking at the example code again, it seems that the example code for the shopping code only processes input before the rest call executes which isn’t quite what I want to do.

To clairfy, this is what I want to do:

a) get a postID string from a REST call
b) iterate through the Post Table
c) stop when I find a matching record
d) modify the record

How can I do this?

Thanks,
Carlton

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Hi @Carlton_Branch

If you want to get the records of Post table you should use the Load Table objects block under Data API section.
Something like this:
Screenshot 2020-09-11 at 13.44.32

Best Regards,
Maksym

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Hi Maksym,

Thanks. Will page size limit the results? I would need to query the entire table which could easily exceed 100 or 1000 records?

Would it be best to get a table count and then set that to the page size?

Thanks,
Carlton

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If you want to get all the records you should take a look at pagination.
More about it here:
https://backendless.com/docs/rest/data_data_paging.html

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Hi Maksym,

Do you know why I am unable to add a where clasue to the Load Table Object block?

Very confusing as there are no error messages as to why things are wrong.
Thanks,
Carlton

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a where clause must be a string, while the block you’re trying to add is resolved to be a boolean.

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Awesome. Thanks.