DSI Platform Web API Service Technical Guide

• About Web API services
  Advanced Inventory's Web API services provide you an open interface option to interact with Mobile Enterprise Platform. If your organization uses device platforms not currently included on Advanced Inventory's list of supported platforms (iOS, Android, Windows CE, and HTML5), you can use Web API services to integrate Mobile Enterprise Platform with your devices wherever an internet connection is available.
• About developing with alternative SDKs
  Mobile Enterprise Platform supports alternative tools such as xCode, Android Studio, Xamarin and others. This enables developers to create a client application with their choice of coding platform or with a SDK for wearables or other specialized devices, while using Mobile Enterprise Platform's application services to provide back-end logic and functionality, such as identity access, data access, and system of record integration.
• Define Web API Agent Security Settings
  Security settings for the Web API agent are defined in Admin. Keys are generated to be used in mobile applications to connect to the API system.
• Authentication calls
  Web API has been updated to use standard OAuth 2.0 for verification and authorization.
• Call creation
  There are certain requirements for API call creation. Each Advanced Inventory API Web call must be constructed with the expected HTTP header. Incorrectly constructed requests will be aborted and returned with an HTTP error code.
• Call groups
  Calls are categorized by both access requirements and functions. This is done to route requests of similar behavior through a chain of message handlers designed specifically to implement that behavior.
• API calls
  Each Web API Service Agent call must be constructed with the expected HTTP headers. The majority of calls are HTTP GET requests and require specific HTTP headers.