You're reading from Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder Boost productivity by building web and mobile applications efficiently using the drag-and-drop approach

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569805

Length 500 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Application Development

Author (1):

Ankur Jain

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Exploring the Building Blocks of VB

2. Chapter 1: What, Why, and How (WWH) of Visual Builder FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Provisioning and Understanding the Visual Builder Instance

4. Chapter 3: Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients

5. Section 2: Working with Data and Services

6. Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Business Objects

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Service Connections

8. Chapter 6: Building Web Applications Using Real-World Examples

9. Chapter 7: Working with Life Cycle Events, Validations, and UI Logic

10. Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components

11. Chapter 8: Exploring Other Visual Components and Their Advanced Functionalities

12. Chapter 9: Extending Oracle and Non-Oracle SaaS Applications

13. Chapter 10: Working with Business Processes

14. Chapter 11: Building a Mobile Application with Live Examples

15. Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

16. Chapter 12: Securing VB Applications

17. Chapter 13: Understanding and Managing Various Stages of a VB App

18. Chapter 14: Best Practices and Recommendations for VB Applications

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting and Debugging VB Applications

20. Chapter 16: Managing VB Apps Using Visual Builder Studio

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Tracking REST calls

In this section, we'll describe how to track REST calls. Since the data communication in Visual Builder applications happens via REST APIs, it's very important to track the REST calls. When you call any Business Objects or any external REST APIs, a request is made to the server to push or pull data depending on the REST call. Sometimes you may need to track the REST calls end to end to debug the REST API issues.

For example, if the VB application calls any external REST API to push data into the external application but somehow all the records could not be updated successfully in the external application, as a developer, it's your duty to debug the VB application to check where the problem is located.

In order to debug such issues in VB, open the browser development console, move to the Network tab, and replicate the issue. Click on the REST API name that you want to track and view the complete REST API details from request to response.

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