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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465573

Length 696 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Azure

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Cloud Computing

Authors (6):

Abhishek Kumar

Martin Abbott

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

James Corbould

Mahindra Morar

Ashish Bhambhani

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud

2. What Is an Azure App Service? FREE CHAPTER

3. Getting Started with API Apps

4. What is Azure API Management?

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

Building your first connector

As discussed in the beginning of this chapter, a connector is basically an API app that focuses on connectivity and gets data in and out of Logic Apps. In this section, we will try to build an Azure Storage Table connector. At the time of writing this chapter, Azure Storage Table connector was not available in the marketplace.

Azure Storage Table connector

We are building this connector to pull author or chapter details for this book from a Book Entity in the storage table.

First of all, we will create the API App project for storage table connector. Please follow the steps described to create an API App in Chapter 3, Getting Started with API Apps.

API App project will have a BookEntity model and a controller BookController as shown here:

BookController will have an operation GetBookEntity. This operation primarily takes the PartitionKey and the RowKey to fetch the record from the storage table. If you see the model, the author or the chapter is the partition...