About the sample
WSO2 Data Services Server supports scraping and extracting Web information and exposing it as dataservices. This sample demonstrates how to extract book information using Site Point (http://www.sitepoint.com/html). The WebResource sample service contains a single operation named getBooksInfo, which returns a list of books and authors.
Building the sample
Deploy the sample data service named WebResourceSample, using the instructions in Samples Setup.
Running the sample
The sample service can be run using the TryIt tool, which comes with the Data Services Server. You can also run it using a code-generated java client. See Data Services Clients for details.
Follow the steps below to demonstrate this functionality using the TryIt tool:
- Log in to the management console of your server and click List under Services in the navigator. The WebResourceSample will be listed here.
- Click Try this service to open the TryIt tool.
- Select the "getBooksInfo" operation and click Send to execute the operation. You will get the response as shown below.
