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The purpose of this guide is to get you started on creating and invoking a data service using WSO2 Data Services Server (WSO2 DSS) as quickly as possible. See the following topics for details:

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  1. Download and install MySQL using Homebrew. 

  2. Open a terminal and execute the following command to start your MySQL database:

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    mysql.server start
  3. Access the MySQL prompt by giving the user name and password. By default the user name is 'root' and the password is blank.

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    mysql -u root -p
  4. Create the sample database named employeedb using the following command: 

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    create database employeedb;
  5. Open the employeedb database you just created using the following command:

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    use employeedb;
  6.  Create one table in the database using the following command:

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    create table employee(id VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(100), address VARCHAR(100));

    This command will create the following table in the database:

  7. Insert employee data into the employee table as follows:

    1. The first employee:

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      insert into employee values('01','john','Boston');
    2. The second employee:

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      insert into employee values('02','Micheal','Dallas');
    3. The third employee:

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      insert into employee values('03','richard','Chicago');
  8. You can see the data that you have added to the employee table of the employeedb database by executing the following command:

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    SELECT * FROM employee

    The result will be as follow:

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  1. Click Add New Datasource. You can now specify the datasource details. 
    1. In the Datasource ID field, enter 'MyDS'.
    2. In the Datasource Type field, select RDBMS from the list of values. 
  2. You will now be prompted to enter details of your RDBMS:
    Edit datasources page
  3. Enter the following details of your MySQL database in the relevant fields as shown above:
  4. Click Save to save the datasource.
  5. Click Next. This will take you to a new page for adding queries to your service. 

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  1. Go to Services -> List to open the Deployed Services page.
  2. Click the data service (MyFirstDS) to open the service dashboard:
    Service dashboard
    See that the URL of the 'MyFirstDS' data service is listed under Endpointshttps://10.100.5.65:9443/services/MyFirstDS/
  3. You can execute the getEmployees operation using the above URL. Simply copy this URL followed by the operation name as shown below.
    https://10.100.5.65:9443/services/MyFirstDS/getEmployees
  4. The result will be the same as with the TryIt tool:
    Operation result using HTTP GET request

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