Form Runner ~ APIs ~ Persistence ~ CRUD

Basics

When using GET, PUT and DELETE to deal with resources, the body of HTTP requests just contains the resource to handle.

• GET: request body is empty, response body contains resource, and the Orbeon-Operations response header lists the operations that the user can perform on the data (see Supporting permissions in your persistence API implementation). If your implementation of the persistence API supports form versioning and you're returning a deployed form definition, you need to tell the call which version of the form definition you're returning through the Orbeon-Form-Definition-Version header.
• PUT: request body contains resource, request response is empty. If your implementation of the persistence API supports form versioning, then when storing a new document, you need to tell the persistence what version of the form definition was used to create this data, so the same version can then be used to subsequently edit the data. This is done by specifying the version in the Orbeon-Form-Definition-Version header.
• DELETE: both request and response bodies are empty

When the resource is an XML file (e.g. form.xhtml, data.xml), the persistence layer must return an appropriate XML content-type: application/xml, or application/xhtml+xml.

URL parameters

[SINCE: Orbeon Forms 4.2]

When data is stored using PUT, the following URL parameter is set:

• valid: whether the data sent satisfies validation rules

Example:

http://example.org/orbeon/fr/service/persistence/crud/
    orbeon/
    bookshelf/
    data/891ce63e59c17348f6fda273afe28c2b/data.xml?
    valid=true

Publishing from Form Builder

When you create, edit, or read form definition with Form Builder, form definitions are stored as Form Builder data. That is, they are stored under:

/crud/orbeon/builder/data/[FORM_DATA_ID]

On the other hand, when Form Builder publishes a form definition, it stores it where Form Runner will find it, that is under:

/crud/[APPLICATION_NAME]/[FORM_NAME]/form

For example, this is what happens when saving and publishing a form definition acme/demo with a single attachment:

Save:

• PUT /crud/orbeon/builder/data/7b55c9d6f9b058376293e61d9f0d4442e379f717/a29fd47011b2957ef44a62d92995adfdbae03fa9.bin
• PUT /crud/orbeon/builder/data/7b55c9d6f9b058376293e61d9f0d4442e379f717/data.xml

Publish:

• PUT /crud/acme/demo/form/a29fd47011b2957ef44a62d92995adfdbae03fa9.bin
• PUT /crud/acme/demo/form/form.xhtml?document=7b55c9d6f9b058376293e61d9f0d4442e379f717

[SINCE Orbeon Forms 4.6]

When Form Builder publishes a form definition, if versioning is supported by the target persistence layer, it passes a Orbeon-Form-Definition-Version header with values:

• next: to indicate that the form definition must be published under the next available version
• or a specific version number: to indicate that the form definition must replace the given version

Deleting all data for an existing form

To remove all instances of form data, issue a DELETE to:

/crud/[APPLICATION_NAME]/[FORM_NAME]/data/