As of late I have been working with WCF Data Services to evaluate its fitness when used with client based Javascript/jQuery applications. I have been quite pleased at the results. WCF Data Services exposes a CRUD OData (Open Data Protocol) interface which can be accessed and utilized from not only jQuery client based applications but also desktop WPF or Silverlight apps, console apps, Winform apps and practically any application capable of communicating with WCF REST services. Early in my evaluation I did encounter the need to uninstall WebDAV, which caused a Bad Method status code 405 to be returned, however after uninstalling WebDAV and utilizing many Internet articles on OData and WCF, I concluded that the following examples are good working examples on using OData and CRUD.
Microsoft does have a higher level Javascript/AJAX based interface implemented in the Sys.components.openDataContextnamespace, however I choose to use the jQuery API to issue Http requests directly, as illustrated in the examples below…
The examples below are also referencing one important constant; my WCF Data Service URL prefix…
1:var dataService = "/jCredentials.svc";
CRUD – “C” is for Create
1:function InsertCredentialsPIN(selectedTreeNode, PINObj) { 2:
3:var url = dataService + "/Credentials_PINs";
4:
5:var json = JSON.stringify(PINObj);
6:
7: $.ajax({ 8: url: url,
9: data: json,
10: type: "POST",
11: contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
12: dataType: "json",
13: success: function (result) { 14: // Do something
15: },
16: error: function (result) { 17: alert("PIN Insert Failure - Status Code=" + 18: result.status + ", Status=" + result.statusText);
19: }
20: });
21:}
CRUD – “R” is for Read
1:function GetPINTree(orderBy) { 2:
3:var url = null;
4:if (orderBy == null) { 5: url = dataService + "/Credentials_PINTree";
6: }
7:else { 8: url = dataService + "/Credentials_PINTree?$orderby=" + orderBy;
9: }
10:
11: $.ajax({ 12: url: url,
13: type: "GET",
14: contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
15: dataType: "json",
16: success: function (result) { 17: // Do something
18: },
19: error: function (result) { 20: alert("PINTree Get Failure - Status Code=" + 21: result.status + ", Status=" + result.statusText);
22: }
23: });
24:}
CRUD – “U” is for Update
1:function UpdatePINTree(selectedTreeNode, PINTreeObj) { 2:
3:var url = dataService + "/Credentials_PINTree(guid'" +
4: selectedTreeNode.get_value() + "')";
5:
6:var json = JSON.stringify(PINTreeObj);
7:
8: $.ajax({ 9: url: url,
10: data: json,
11: type: "PUT",
12: contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
13: dataType: "json",
14: success: function (result) { 15: // Do something
16: },
17: error: function (result) { 18: alert("PIN Tree Update Failure - Status Code=" + 19: result.status + ", Status=" + result.statusText);
20: }
21: });
22:}
CRUD – “D” is for Delete
1:function DeletePIN(selectedTreeNode) { 2:
3:var url = dataService + "/Credentials_PINs(guid'" +
4: selectedTreeNode.get_value() + "')";
5:
6: $.ajax({ 7: url: url,
8: type: "DELETE",
9: contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
10: dataType: "json",
11: success: function (result) { 12: // Do something
13: },
14: error: function (result) { 15: alert("PIN Delete Failure - Status Code=" + 16: result.status + ", Status=" + result.statusText);
17: }
18: });
19:}
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