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I was very excited to hear about the new API Express featured and have started to try it out. I have hit a couple problems right away though:

1. According to the doc page for the feature the BLOB datatype is supported on mysql databases. I have setup a mysql instance in Amazon RDS and have a table that has a BLOB column.

   In API express I can successfully connect to the DB instance but when I try to create a model for this table the BLOB column shows as UNKNOWN data type. See the category_icon column in the screenshot below:
   

2. After creating the model/project in API Express I go in to the app builder to create the services. As described in the doc I select Create New-Extensions. But the only choice I have under Extensions is for "App Creator Express". I see no choice for "API Express Generator" as the doc describes.

   Please help as I really would like to try out this new feature and see if it will let me quickly create the services I need for an external DB.

Hello Greg,

1. Please send us (a href="mailto:support@appery.io" rel="nofollow"support@appery.io/a) your ddl script.

2. This extension is abailable only for angularJS projects.

Hi Sergiy, well #2 explains the problem. I am working in a jquery mobile project. Are the any plans to have the API express functionality available in jquery mobile projects as well?

As a side note I did not see anywhere in the documentation or API Express UI that this functionality was limited to angularJS projects. It would have been nice to have been able to find this information up front. Since the announcement of API express I have spent the last several days learning how to stand up a mysql instance in Amazon RDS and how to configure its VPC so it is accessible by API express. If I cannot use this functionality in jquery mobile projects those several days have now been wasted.

So you are saying that API Express is only for angularJS?

Sergiy can you please let us know if there are plans to have API Express available for jquery projects?

Hi Greg and Miguel -

We are clarifying this questions with our developers team.

We will let you know as soon as we have more information from them.

Hello,

API Express is only available for AngularJS projects.
For now we do not have plans to develop it for jQuery projects.

Also please check Max's reply in the related thread https://getsatisfaction.com/apperyio/...