Trying to get form data as XML via REST API

Question

It should be a simple thing and it probably is, but I'm not achieving to get the XML data of a draft form via the REST API described in the Orbeon docs.

I did the following changes to the properties-local-dev.xml file:

<property
  as="xs:string"
  processor-name="oxf:page-flow"
  name="page-public-methods"
  value="GET HEAD POST"/>

<property
  as="xs:string"
  processor-name="oxf:page-flow"
  name="service-public-methods"
  value="GET HEAD"/>

<property
  as="xs:anyURI"
  name="oxf.fr.persistence.exist.exist-uri"
  value="/exist/rest/db/orbeon/fr"/>

<page    public-methods="GET HEAD POST" view="view.xpl"/>
<service public-methods="GET HEAD"      view="view.xpl"/>

Then I tried different URL's to call the data:

  http://localhost:9090/orbeon/exist/rest/db/orbeon/fr/gsmn/hello-world/draft/f025a471b2c8452dd65267cc5886063d995757f5/data.xml
  http://localhost:9090/orbeon/crud/gsmn/hello-world/draft/f025a471b2c8452dd65267cc5886063d995757f5/data.xml
  http://localhost:9090/orbeon/fr/service/persistence/crud/gsmn/hello-world/draft/f025a471b2c8452dd65267cc5886063d995757f5/data.xml

Form Runner resides on : http://localhost:9090/orbeon/fr/

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

Thanks Noel

avernet avernet · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-23T22:37:07

Assuming your app name is gsmn and your form name is hello-world, then the last URL you mentioned (copied below for clarity), should work.

http://localhost:9090/orbeon/fr/service/persistence/crud/gsmn/hello-world/draft/92aad35a44876b3bfac3b4d6f835130fbd1fe19e/data.xml

However, most likely, the issue is that you're trying this with eXist, and that, as of this writing, the autosave functionality isn't supported by Orbeon Forms on eXist; it is only supported on relational databases. For more on this, see the support matrix for different databases, and the RFE to add support for autosave on eXist.

Trying to get form data as XML via REST API

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