Microsoft Entra OAuth2.0 JWTs and ORDS secure APIs Tutorial: Configuration and Testing

Since ORDS first introduced support for authenticating with JWTs, there have been many questions surrounding configuration and testing. In this example, I cover, from start to finish: If this sounds like what you are looking for, then read on. There’s a lot to cover here, so there’s no faffing about on this one. Let’s go! … Read more

New ORDS feature: handling multiple files from a multipart/form-data POST request

A new feature An ORDS user (or application) can now upload multiple files as part of a multipart/form-data POST request under various conditions. How can this be achieved with an ORDS endpoint? NOTE: Before you continue, it might be helpful to refresh your memory on, or learn more about multipart/form-data as a Content-Type. Details here. … Read more

ORDS 24.3 Release Highlights

Overview There’s plenty to talk about in this release. However, I’m most excited about the performance improvements, ORDS sample applications, and documentation changes. Read on to get the whole story. Enhancements API Performance REST API responses from either AutoREST or customer based modules could see as much as a 30% improvement in response times. About … Read more

How to kill an ORDS process

How do I “kill” an ORDS process? FYI: This was all done on a MacBook, so…this may differ on a PC or Linux machine. Apologies m’Lord… Here are the options I’ve found to “kill” an ORDS process: It looks like we’ve included in our docs how to start ORDS (with the ords serve command), but … Read more

Extending ORDS with a Java plugin

About this article This article is a walkthrough and overview of setting up the example Java plugin that ships with ORDS. These plugins allow you to add functionalities and capabilities above what is possible with a standard ORDS configuration. In this example, the plugin allows you to use a name as a query parameter in an HTTP … Read more

ORDS 24.2 Release Highlights

NOTE: This can be thought of as a “companion piece” to the official ORDS release notes 🤓. What is new in Oracle REST Data Services 24.2? New HTTPS Response Status Codes In response to various support requests and internal feedback, we’ve expanded on the existing ORDS Status Codes (the current list can be found here)! … Read more

Build an ORDS API Resource Module, GET request with JavaScript fetch, display in HTML

Really trying to optimize SEO with that title 👆🏼! Recap 💡 All the code you’ll see in this post can be found in my moviestreamjs github repository.💡 This post is a continuation of a previous one, which can be found here. In this post, I’ll: If you are coming from the previous related post, then … Read more

Create a view from a JSON Collection and REST-enable it with ORDS

The DBMS_CLOUD PL/SQL Package You can use this PL/SQL procedure (in the DBMS_CLOUD package) along with the file_uri_list URL (seen in the code below) to create and then add JSON documents to a JSON Collection (good info on JSON Collections in the Oracle database). In this example, we call this collection Movie_Collection. 👆🏻 This is … Read more

The one ORDS command you NEED to know!

ords config list –include-defaults

That’s it. Goodbye!

I’m kidding, there’s more. But if you don’t feel like reading anymore, bookmark this post and return when you’re ready.

Assuming you have ORDS installed, you too can execute the ords config list –include-defaults command to reveal almost all the configuration settings for your ORDS installation.

Here is what my configuration…

ORDS, JavaScript, the Fetch API, and HTML

I found JavaScript and HTML code here and here and “remixed” it to work with one of my sample ORDS APIs. Here is the result: Impressive, no? Care to try it out? Read on friend! References I’ll front load with all the necessary stuff. That way, you can bounce if you don’t feel like reading. … Read more