D4Science Infrastructure

Thanks for your prompt support.
I'm not sure that the page http://figisapps.fao.org/figis/secure-reports-store-gateway/ is part of the rest endpoint http://figisapps.fao.org/figis/secure-reports-store-gateway/rest. Inspecting this page, it seems a static page only (see https://github.com/openfigis/vme/blob/master/vme-web/src/main/webapp/index.html).

Can you clarify the mechanism used to check the connection? Do you perform some REST operation to do that?

What i see is that from the 3 main operations we can do (edit, create, delete), none is currently working, and it's contradictory with the message that we successfully connect to the REST endpoint.

The page at http://figisapps.fao.org/figis/secure-reports-store-gateway/ is a courtesy page deployed together with the RSG WS. Some of the suggested example methods do work,
see this: http://figisapps.fao.org/figis/secure-reports-store-gateway/rest/report/types

Some other don't, the mechanism to check the connection is to instance the RSGReadClient by passing to it the endpoint (new RsgReadClient(rsgAp.getRestUrl());) If this call doesn't fail it means that the RSG web service is responding. And that is why it says successfully connected. I cannot check all the possible RSG methods in this initial phase, i just make sure that the WS is there.

Then if some other ws method dont work na error is displayed, e.g. We're sorry, it seems something is broken in the communication with the VMEs Repository.

It looks like the correct way to do for me.

Ok, it's clear now how you check the connection. I also agree that you can't check all possible REST operations in this phase. Maybe is the fact it's a generic message that is confusing, instead of having an exception message specific to the method in question.

Generally speaking (& maybe we can close this specific ticket on this): How specific RSG exceptions could be handled in the RM? is it possible? (I'd like to relate this to the need to share data business validation RSG exception messages to the RM)