Defining Multiple REST End Points in Visual Builder – A Best Practice by Shay Shmeltzer

Visual Builder Cloud Service makes it very easy to add REST services to your application – through the "new service connection" wizard you specify the URL to any REST service and a new entry is created for you. However, here is a small tip that will make your application management and performance better when you are leveraging multiple services from the same source – gather them into a single service.

A service connection in VBCS can have multiple end-point defined in it. If you just run through the wizard for adding a service – each end point will create a new service definition. The best practice is to add new endpoint definition into the same service definition when possible.

Let’s work through an example:

We’ll use a set of services about countries available here:

https://restcountries.eu/#api-endpoints-code

You’ll see for example these services there:

· https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/{name}?fullText=true

· https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/alpha/{code}

The right way to add both to your project is:

1. Use the "Create Service" wizard to add the first end point:

Going through the wizard will end up with a place for you to define the specific end point: Read the complete article here.

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