Working with the RESTful API DSA

The RESTful API DSA is a data source adaptor to interact with RESTful web services.

Whenever your web browser fetches a file (page, picture, and so forth) from a web server, it does so using HTTP. HTTP is a request/response protocol, which means your computer sends a request for some file or resource, and the web server sends back a response. Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style where resources are accessed using links, the resources are acted upon by using a set of simple operations. By accessing and acting on these links user can get resources, add new or update existing ones and also delete resources. The purpose of RESTful DSA is to allow Impact policies to make these requests.

To use the REST DSA, you must first do the following:

Create a RESTful API data source. For more information see Creating a RESTful DSA data source.
Write policies to execute actions against the RESTful APIs. For more information see Making requests to the RESTful data source.