Some of you may have noticed that we didn’t reach our target of migrating all CGW users to Opaali by the end of year 2017. Looks like I will continue writing this blog some time into year 2018…
I see that I haven’t written here anything since more than two months ago. Most of that time I have been busy with the User Acceptance Tests (UAT) for the enhanced binary sms support, which went live on 2017-12-08 (R4SP2). I’m hoping to write more about that once we have the final updated API documentation available.
After the UAT I have been trying to get the http_adapter sample application finalized for production use. It was really difficult to find volunteers to test it in production use, almost everybody wanted to wait until someone else has found all the bugs in the code. And when it finally was taken to production use by some brave people – of course loads of bugs were discovered (and fixed) during the first couple of days. As far as I know, http_adapter is currently used in production for an internal service, so it should be stable enough for others, too. If there were more users testing the http_adapter, I’m sure the bugs would be found and fixed much faster…
The latest release of the http_adapter has some small enhacements, of which I’m hoping to write an article about in the near future. (It currently supports only sending messages, but there have been requests to implement receive functionality – I’ll continue with that when I have time…)
I should also write about session handling. Our vendor suspects that some of the recent performance issues may have been related to some applications requesting a new access_token much too frequently. I know that it is easy to write bad code that continuously loops requesting new tokens (been there; done that) but lets try to get a new token only when the previous one has expired or is about to expire.
That’s all for now. In my next post, I might also write about what I did during my Xmas Holiday…
JPLa is a member of the Content Gateway (CGW) to Opaali migration team, specialising in programming related issues and API usage.