March 2020 – RedThunder.Blog

Access OIC REST based Integrations using an OAuth Client (No Password Expiry For Basic Auth User Anymore) !!!

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is Oracle’s next generation modern Integration solution Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. The core purpose of this product to integrate various SaaS and On-prem systems real time. In addition to Integration capability, it also provides Process Automation and Visual Builder Capability. Details docs are available here.

OIC has concept of Adapters. There are huge range of adapters available and documented here.

One of the Adapter REST Adapter been used to expose an Integration to outside world for consumption. In order word, it’s an entry point for most of Integrations what we developed using OIC. It also gets used to invoke any external REST based endpoint.

REST Adapter support Basic Auth and various flavour of OAuth as security mechanism to protect the Integration access.

However, not all OAuth flavour supported for Trigger Role (Used as Entry point of Integration) vs Invoke Role (Used for invoking third party REST endpoint).

REST APIs exposed using the REST Adapter (Trigger Role) are protected using Basic Authentication and OAuth token-based authentication.

REST API consumed using the REST Adapter (Invoke Role) Support HTTP Basic Authentication, OAuth Client Credentials (two-legged flow), OAuth Resource Owner Password Credentials (two-legged flow), OAuth Authorization Code Credentials (three-legged flow), OAuth Custom Three Legged Flow, OAuth Custom Two Legged Flow, OAuth 1.0a One Legged Authentication, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Signature Version 4, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Signature Version 1. There is also support for consuming APIs that are unprotected.

Now, majority of Customers chose Basic AUTH while publishing an Integration because it’s very simply to implement but has limitation because the user password gets expired in every 3 month which result changing all Integrations configuration again in 3 month of time. We can very well avoid this problem by Implementing OAuth token which never gets expired.

Oracle has official document for setting up Service Account without expiry but it’s quite difficult to follow instructions from that document. Hence, I thought to publish more user friendly instructions to achieve the same outcome.

In this blog, I will be covering how we can invoke an Integration exposed using REST Adapter (Trigger role) using OAuth token which doesn’t get expired.

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Object Storage with Oracle Integration Cloud – Part 2

The first part of this series explored how to setup a connection between Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and OCI Object Storage, and how to use Object Storage as a location to write files as part of an integration.

In this blog I will show you how to use Oracle Integration Cloud to consume objects from OCI Object Storage, including listing, reading and deleting those objects. To do this I have prepared an integration which showcases a common integration pattern; consuming a staged file in order to load data into an enterprise system. In this case, the integration will load financial data from Object Storage into Oracle’s ERP Cloud application. Specifically, this integration will:

List Account Payable (AP) Invoice files available on OCI Object Storage
For each source file that it finds in the cloud bucket, it will:
1. Read & transform the file to the format required by Oracle ERP Cloud
2. Upload the transformed file to ERP Cloud and trigger the required Import jobs in the application
3. Delete the now processed file from the OCI Object Storage bucket

The tech behind the social good

Over the past couple of weeks, there’s been some work by a few of us to #GiveFirst. I’ll share a little context but will get to the tech very quicker.

From March 3rd (2020), an event called Viz for Social Good with Sunny Street (click “here” for the eventbrite for some of the details) was being run. This was a virtual datathon “a data visualisation hackathon” being hosted by Frederic Fery for a company called Sunny Street. Also with what’s happening, the pitch event had gone virtual. I’ll add comments to this post as well get closer or to reflect on the outcomes. The virtual event is live on March 19th on zoom (https://zoom.us/j/9065708856) at 5pm AEST (+10 GMT).

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Manage Custom Object in Salesforce using Oracle Integration Salesforce Adapter !!!

Customisation is essential part of any SaaS implementation to capture unique business needs. In Salesforce SaaS application also, there could be several use-cases where user might need to create a new Custom Object or add custom fields into existing Standard Object such as Contact, Account and Organisation etc. In this blog I will be showing how can we add Custom Object e.g. CochOrder which can have multiple Custom Fields e.g. Order Number, Shipping Cost, Source Region, Target Region and Total Amount etc. and can update that Custom Object fields using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) Salesforce adapter. I must recommend you to read my other blog which I have wrote to cover adding Custom Fields to existing Standard Object such as Contact, Account and Organisation etc. Most of the steps is going to same as previous blogs, so I am not going to repeat them here, instead will be only focusing only new changes related to Custom Objects.

Before, I go into deep drive, just want to highlight the core objective of this blog to show Salesforce configuration and OIC Salesforce adapter configuration, I am assuming reader has already basis understanding of OIC product features such as Connection, Integration, mapping and deployment.

My colleague had already covered Salesforce Inbound and Outbound integration using Oracle Integration Cloud Salesforce Adapter. So, I might not be repeating few steps which already been covered in this blog as well. if you doing Salesforce Integration first time, then its recommended to review these blogs before you proceed to read this blog.

So let’s do deep dive now. Below are the high levels flow and steps which needs to be performed to achieve desired result.