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Hi,

Is there a tutorial or some reference doc on how to integrate an appery.io mobile app with Windows Azure Mobile Services?

I'm kind of leaning more towards to Azure because of the ease of using relation databases to store my data. I don't know how big of a learning curve MongoDb has, please advice.

Thanks!

Hi Eduardo!

I use a Delphi DataSnap server running in a Windows Azure worker role. The data used is from a relational cloud based Microsoft Azure SQL server. This works super with Appery but I would also like to learn new things like this. Important subject

Best regards
Ole Henrik Oftedal

Timeflex Systemer AS
http://www.timeflex.no
http://www.timeflex.com

I believe Windows Azure exposes its services/data via REST APIs. If that's the case, you can easily use it in your app that you build in Appery.io. Almost all out tutorials show how to setup and use a REST API service. Once you know how to define/use one service, you know how to use them all. Windows Azure would be the same thing. You can also check docs specific to API services: http://docs.appery.io/documentation/#...

Thanks a lot. I've been playing around Appery.io backend services today and they're pretty easy to use. I think I'll stick with Appery.

The REST api work with Azure. However, Azure uses oData format for data selection as mentioned here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...

the question is: How do I specify the $filter and $orderby clauses using Appery REST definition builder. Generally the docs specify to use where and sort clauses, but they don't seem to work with oData format. We have to use the $filter and $order by.

Any ideas?

Hello,

As far as we are concerned from this example
"GET https://todolist.azure-mobile.net/tab..."
you need to create Rest service with URL "https://todolist.azure-mobile.net/tab..." and two request parameters: "$filter" and "$inlinecount"
You can find comprehensive information about working with external REST services in our documentation: http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat....
And we can't give you any advice about Open Data Protocol (OData)