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Use CData Connect Cloud to create an OData feed for NetSuite Data and create custom apps in Mendix.
Mendix is a high-productivity app platform that allows you to build and maintain both mobile and web applications at-scale. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, Mendix provides instant, cloud-to-cloud access to NetSuite data for applications. This article demonstrates how to connect to a CData Connect Cloud data source from within Mendix.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for NetSuite, allowing you to import data from live NetSuite data in Mendix — without replicating the data to a natively supported database. As you build web and mobile applications from within Mendix, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to NetSuite, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested NetSuite data quickly.
About NetSuite Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Oracle NetSuite. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Access all editions of NetSuite, including Standard, CRM, and OneWorld.
- Connect with all versions of the SuiteTalk API (SOAP-based) and SuiteQL, which functions like SQL, enabling easier data querying and manipulation.
- Access predefined and custom reports through support for Saved Searches.
- Securely authenticate with Token-based and OAuth 2.0, ensuring compatibility and security for all use cases.
- Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like uploading or downloading files, attaching or detaching records or relationships, retrieving roles, getting extra table or column info, getting job results, and more.
Customers use CData solutions to access live NetSuite data from their preferred analytics tools, Power BI and Excel. They also use CData's solutions to integrate their NetSuite data into comprehensive databases and data warehouse using CData Sync directly or leveraging CData's compatibility with other applications like Azure Data Factory. CData also helps Oracle NetSuite customers easily write apps that can pull data from and push data to NetSuite, allowing organizations to integrate data from other sources with NetSuite.
For more information about our Oracle NetSuite solutions, read our blog: Drivers in Focus Part 2: Replicating and Consolidating ... NetSuite Accounting Data.
Getting Started
Configure NetSuite Connectivity for Mendix
Connectivity to NetSuite from Mendix is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with NetSuite data from Mendix, we start by creating and configuring a NetSuite connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "NetSuite" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to NetSuite.
The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid NetSuite user credentials. In addition, the AccountId must be set to the ID of a company account that can be used by the specified User. The RoleId can be optionally specified to log in the user with limited permissions.
See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for more information on connecting to NetSuite.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add NetSuite Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
Configure NetSuite Endpoints for Mendix
After connecting to NetSuite, create a workspace and virtual dataset for your desired table(s).
- Navigate to the Virtual Datasets page and click Add to create a new Workspace (or select an existing workspace).
- Click Add to add new assets to the Workspace.
- Select the NetSuite connection (e.g. NetSuite1) and click Next.
- Select the table(s) you wish to work with and click Confirm.
- Make note of the OData Service URL for your workspace, e.g. https://cloud.cdata.com/api/odata/{workspace_name}
With the connection and Workspace configured, you are ready to connect to NetSuite data from Mendix.
Build a NetSuite-Connected App
With the Workspace added to Connect Cloud, you can build an app in Mendix with live access to NetSuite data.
Downloading the OData Metadata File
When creating a connection in Mendix, the connection flow requires a Data Source Contract File. Follow these steps to download the OData metadata file for CData Connect Cloud using curl, a command line tool:
- Open a command-line window for your operating system. On Windows, open the start menu, type cmd, and press the Enter key to open a command prompt. On macOS and Linux, open a Terminal window.
- To check if curl is installed on your system, type curl -help and press the enter key. If it is not installed, install it from the curl website.
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Issue the following curl command, replacing USER with your CData Connect Cloud
username and PAT with the PAT you generated above:
curl -u USER:PAT https://cloud.cdata.com/api/odata/{workspace_name}/$metadata -o metadata.xml
- Locate the metadata.xml file that the curl command created and move it to an accessible location.
Connecting to CData Connect Cloud in Mendix
Follow these steps to establish a connection from Mendix to CData Connect Cloud:
- Login to Mendix and open the Data Hub page.
- In the Register a Data Source section, select OData.
- Upload the metadata.xml file from the steps above and click Next.
- Enter your desired values for Data Source Name and Data Source Version. In the Data Source Relative Path field, enter /api/odata/{workspace_name} and click Next.
- On the Application information page, click Register a new application.
- Enter a name in Application Name and select a technical owner (by default, this is the user who is currently logged in).
- Click Next. In the Environment Name field, enter a desired name (for example, CData Connect Cloud). In the Environment Location field, enter https://cloud.cdata.com and select the appropriate Environment Type (e.g. Production), depending on what is needed.
- Click Done! to create your connection.
You can now use your connection in Mendix Studio Pro to easily create applications with access to live NetSuite data.
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