5 Replies Latest reply on Feb 26, 2020 8:39 PM by thatJeffSmith-Oracle

Disable hyperlink generation in AutoREST feature

Leandroide Feb 19, 2020 12:42 PM

Hi guys, we were wondering if there is some workaround to disable hyperlinks generation in AutoRest Enabled objects?

Maybe you are wondering WHY, just because we are consuming ORDS endpoints through Java applications, so we cannot map the response to our DAO, DTOs, etc, considering that responses come like this:

{

"items" : [

{ "my_db_field" : "MyDB Value" },

...

"links" : [

{

"rel" : "self",

"href" : "URL"

{

"rel" : "edit",

"href" : "URL"

...

]

The bold part of the JSON response is what does not belong to our data model, causing most Java frameworks to fail mapping resources.

Thanks in advance, and have a nice day!

1. Re: Disable hyperlink generation in AutoREST feature

thatJeffSmith-Oracle Feb 19, 2020 1:39 PM (in response to Leandroide)

These are standard rest resource responses..it's normal to provide these links.

There's no way to disable the links, but I'm sure there's a way to get your Java application to work.
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2. Re: Disable hyperlink generation in AutoREST feature

Leandroide Feb 19, 2020 2:36 PM (in response to thatJeffSmith-Oracle)

Yes, there is, but if we could globally disable ORDS hyperlinks, then we wouldn't have had to change our applications (many).

I guess I will start to code, thank you anyways.
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3. Re: Disable hyperlink generation in AutoREST feature

stevenharmony Feb 26, 2020 7:52 AM (in response to Leandroide)

I have the same request... For a different reason.

I am running autorest through an API Gateway proxy. The links show up as direct links to the backend. I was able to partially fix it by forcing the host header to what I want to see in the link. But any url rewrites do not transpose to these links.

The users go to the gateway as:

https:/gatewayadress.com/v1/tablename

And the ords HTTP server gets (through the gateway rewrites).

https:/ordsserveraddress.com/ords/schemaname/tablename

The links then look like the above address. .But I want them to look like the gateway address.

I read in a blog about setting the host header into "Tricking" ords into reflecting what I want to see.
So when I set the host header to the gateway address I get:

https:/gatewayadress.com/ords/schemaname/tablename

None of the url re-writing shows up on the links.

I want to temporarily turn the links off. Fix them later when I can figure this all out out.

Thanks
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4. Re: Disable hyperlink generation in AutoREST feature

Leandroide Feb 26, 2020 6:44 PM (in response to stevenharmony)

I think this could be a really useful feature
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5. Re: Disable hyperlink generation in AutoREST feature

thatJeffSmith-Oracle Feb 26, 2020 8:39 PM (in response to stevenharmony)

I'm struggling to understand how your framework/app doesn't have the ability to show/display what you want it to, you don't have a way to hide the links, or for that matter, any part of the JSON document that you want?

You can create your own custom JSON responses, and then there would be no links unless you built your own.
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