Real-Time Database/Messaging REST Api

General
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Greetings,

Excited about Backendless 5.0 and exciting new functionalities

The documentation has only been updated for the SDK’s.

Is this available on REST?

I would like to incorporate both Real-Time Database and Real-Time Messaging on my REST based android application.

Regards,
George

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REST is based on the request-response paradigm. That is a client makes a request, server sends a response. Real-time database/messaging is based on the client maintaining a dedicated connection with the server. And for that reason,I it is not possible with REST. That functionality is implemented in the SDKs though.

Regards,
Mark

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Hi Mark,

Could you then consider having a dependency dedicated to Real-Time Database and Real-Time messaging for those implementing REST for the other functions?

George.

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There is not even a library for REST. What would that “dependency” look like?

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Am thinking along something like this

The following libraries are available for the various Firebase features.


Gradle Dependency Line							Service
com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.0		          Analytics
com.google.firebase:firebase-database:16.0.1	         Realtime Database
com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore:17.0.1	        Cloud Firestore
com.google.firebase:firebase-storage:16.0.1		Storage
com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:16.0.0		Crash Reporting
com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:16.0.1		        Authentication
com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.0.0	Cloud Messaging
com.google.firebase:firebase-config:16.0.0		Remote Config

A library for each feature of Backendless.

George

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I prefer the simplicity of adding a single line of dependency to get all of Backendless functionality. This is what I would call ease-of-use.