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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

By : Edward Callahan
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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

By: Edward Callahan

Overview of this book

Developers of all levels can now easily develop custom, responsive, and rich web application clients with secure, scalable servers utilizing relational databases and RESTful services using WaveMaker Studio. Whether you need a departmental business application or a form application for your weekend club, this book will show you how to design, develop, and deploy professional grade web applications with WaveMaker. Easy Web Development with WaveMaker will help you use WaveMaker to design, develop, and deploy rich, responsive web applications, even if you are not a programmer. If you need to build a data-driven web application, but you only know ‘enough to be dangerous,' you need this book. This book examines every angle of using WaveMaker to build applications, from dissecting examples to customizing, deploying, and debugging your own applications. This book enables the non-professional programmer to become comfortable not only with using WaveMaker Studio itself, but also with the artefacts produced by the studio as well as the runtime and services provided by the WaveMaker framework. You will learn everything, from how customize the user experience with JavaScript and CSS to integrating with custom Java services and the Spring Framework server-side. Easy Web Development with WaveMaker 6.5 is packed with examples, code samples, screenshots, and links to equip you to be successful with WaveMaker Studio.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Easy Web Development with WaveMaker
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Styling the Application
7
Working with Databases
8
Utilizing Web Services
Index

The security service


The security service is added to the project upon first enabling security, and it provisions five functions that can be invoked with service variables or from custom Java for additional functionality. Those functions are:

  • getUserId()

  • getUserName()

  • getUserRoles()

  • isAuthenticated()

  • logout()

A common use case for getUserName() is displaying the returned username as a welcome message. Additional user information, such as additional user table fields or LDAP attributes, is not accessible through the security service. If we need access to such data, getUserId() is a good way to obtain the user's ID as a key for further attribute querying.

Tip

If invoking security service functions client-side, be certain to wait until getUserId() has returned before using its return value as input to additional queries by using the onsuccess event of any service variables.