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This Web Service API is a web service extension to allow remote communication with the ColdFusion administrator on your web servers. Support for ColdFusion 6.1, 7 and 8.
Coldfusion 6.1 support is however being discontinued.
Originally developed for the HELM hosting control panel to allow direct ColdFusion administrator integration for creating ColdFusion Datasources in HELM3. HELM4 has since been released and has added support for creating security sandboxes.
It also includes a HTTPWrapper which accepts regular form posts, but this is probably of little use to anyone and was only developed for use by HELM3 as ASP could not consume the web services directly, therefore I have not bothered documenting it. But for those who want to use it, you simply pass the same attributes that you would pass to the CFC except as form fields or url variables in a form post/get.
For ColdFusion 6.1 it used the Service Factory and the undocumentated components used by the cfadmin, no firther features will be added for CF 6.1
For ColdFusion 7/8 the official AdminAPI is used.
I have to give some credit to Zhou Yu who used to work for me and who I tasked with coding my first draft of this API, and who I can also blame for how messy some of the code is. I am cleaning it up and improving it as I go along though honest :-)
The web service currently supports:-
Mappings
Datasources
Security Sandboxes
More features will be added as and when the HELM developers decide to support them. Next on the list is most likley to be:-
Verity Collections
Scheduled Tasks
Event Gateways
Current Version : 1.1.7 BETA
The official download can be found HERE.
The subversion source code can be found on RIAFORGE
Any bugs or requests please make on the forum.
If you find this software useful and would like to contribute towards the ongoing support and development, please feel free to make a donation using one of the buttons below.
Big thanks to Sal @ gothamweb for his donation.
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Do you see any reason why this wouldn't work through an AIR app?
Could not find the ColdFusion Component or Interface cfide.adminapi.webService.cf7mapping.
and in the Helm Diagnostics I've got the following one:
ColdFusion failed to communicate with the webservice. Reason: Error attempting to create Java skeleton for CFC web service.; nested exception is: coldfusion.xml.rpc.CFCInvocationException: [coldfusion.xml.rpc.SkeletonClassLoader$UnresolvedCFCDataTypeException : Cannot resolve CFC datatype: cfide.adminapi.webService.cf7mapping.]
Im sure i have correct IP in config.cfm and just to make sure i added IP also into ip.cfm. Is there other file where i should write IP to make it work?
Thank you .
I'm afraid I have nothing to do with HELM any more since Parallels took over, so I wouldn't rely my API being supported in HELM4 if I were you.
I have moved over to DotNetPanel now.
DNP just seems to have more potential and more future than HELM.
Firstly, many thanks for this application.
I am using CF 7 with Helm 3.
Everything works fine until I actually try to create a DSN.
The following error is returned.
Unable to save DSN. Your IP (127.0.0.1) is not allowed!
I have checked the IP is included in the config.cfm.
I have seen references from others having the problem
to an IP.cfm file, but I can't find this file anywhere.
I can see the error is returned by the AdminAPIWrapper.cfm,
but I have no idea how to correct it.
Any help in getting this to work would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Jenny
site and the version they have sent me is the new/wrong one.
Would it be possible for you to send this to me, please, or
tell me where I can get it?
Many thanks,
Jenny
impression that you created this api? I thought it might
be a simple process for you to email me the zip?
Sorry if I am frustrated but i've been working on this for
some days and getting nowhere.
a link to the correct API can be found here:
http://download.webhostautomation.net/CFMX/