Services

Services are what FluentOlap uses during the population process and in the future may be used to perform different tasks.

A Service is really anything that implements the abstract class Service<TIn, TOut>. However, in the context of functionality in FluentOlap, they are used to perform tasks using their delegate function, to retrieve data.

The only current maintained implementation in FluentOlap is the HttpService, described below.

HttpService

The HttpService uses template URLs to continuously and recursively make HTTP calls until all sub-models' data are retrieved.

Its calls are supplemented with HttpServiceOptions, that may be just as simple defining the initial parameters to fill in the template URL.

Example

// Defining and adding to global services.
FluentOlapConfiguration.ServiceDefinitions = new ServiceDefinitions {
    ["SomeService"] = HttpService service = new HttpService("https://url.xyz/api/{number}");
}

// A Hypothetical class that inherits from AnalyzerObject<T>
// If you are not familiar with analyzer objects, please take a look at the getting started section
HypotheticalAnalyzer analyzer = new HypotheticalAnalyzer();


PopulationResult result = analyzer.PopulateAsync(new HttpServiceOptions {
    Parameters = {
        number = 29
    }
});
// The call will be: GET https://url.xyz/api/29

Note: There are more options like specifying the HttpMethod. Details will be filled in as the documentation grows.