work with Windows Azure from mobile platforms
jakarta, sep 29, 2011
Andri Yadiandri (at) dycode (dot) com@andri_yadi
about me
4 years in a row
start my own company & code for food
8 years in mobile development
a movie freak
the ceo of
i won’t talk much about Azure, but mostly on client side
azure?
receive notifications
use cloud as storage (blob + structured data)
access web applications hosted in azure
work with azure from mobile client apps can be complex
table storage
blob storage
http
scenario 1
you need to create storage, then remember the account name & key
blob storage
REST Endpoint:http://[account].blob.core.windows.net
•List, Create, and Delete Containers•List, Put, Get, Delete Blobs
blob storage
GET http://watiosdemo.blob.core.windows.net/?comp=list&include=metadata
x-‐ms-‐date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:30:00 GMTx-‐ms-‐version: 2009-‐09-‐19x-‐ms-‐blob-‐type: BlockBlobAuthorization: SharedKey watiosdemo:[ComputedHash]
list all blob containers
compute hash
AccountKey: /9seXadQ9HwOpXUO1jKxFN8q…
Request: GET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nx-‐ms-‐blob-‐type:BlockBlob\nx-‐ms-‐date:Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:30:00 GMT\nx-‐ms-‐version:2009-‐09-‐19\n/watiosdemo/\ncomp:list\ninclude:metadata
Hash = HMACSHA256(UTF8Encode(Request), Base64Decode(AccountKey))
blob storage
GET http://watiosdemo.blob.core.windows.net/?comp=list&include=metadata
x-‐ms-‐date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:30:00 GMTx-‐ms-‐version: 2009-‐09-‐19x-‐ms-‐blob-‐type: BlockBlobAuthorization: SharedKey watiosdemo:[ComputedHash]
list all blob containers
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-‐8"?><EnumerationResults AccountName="http://watiosdemo.blob.core.windows.net/"> <Prefix>c</Prefix> <MaxResults>3</MaxResults> <Containers> <Container> <Name>movieposter</Name> <Url>http://watiosdemo.blob.core.windows.net/movieposter</Url> <Properties> <Last-‐Modified>Sun, 14 Apr 2011 20:09:03 GMT</Last-‐Modified> </Properties> </Container> </Containers>....
blob storage
PUT http://watiosdemo.blob.core.windows.net/movieposter/poster.jpg
x-‐ms-‐date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:30:00 GMTx-‐ms-‐version: 2009-‐09-‐19x-‐ms-‐blob-‐type: BlockBlobAuthorization: SharedKey watiosdemo:[ComputedHash]
{...binary representation of image...}
add new image
table storage
REST Endpoint:http://[account].table.core.windows.net
•List, Create, and Delete Tables•List, Put, Get, Delete Table Entities
blob storage
GET http://watiosdemo.table.core.windows.net/Tables
x-‐ms-‐date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:30:00 GMTx-‐ms-‐version: 2009-‐09-‐19DataServiceVersion: 1.0;NetFxMaxDataServiceVersion: 2.0;NetFxAuthorization: SharedKey watiosdemo:[ComputedHash]
list all tables
<feed xml:base="http://iostest.tables.core.windows.net/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title type="text">Tables</title> <id>http://watiosdemo.tables.core.windows.net/Tables</id> <updated>2011-‐04-‐04T17:18:54.7062347Z</updated> <link rel="self" title="Tables" href="Tables" /> <entry> <id>http://watiosdemo.tables.core.windows.net/Tables(‘movie')</id> <title type="text"></title> <updated>2009-‐01-‐04T17:18:54.7062347Z</updated> <author> <name /> </author>....
it’s hard, right? luckily...
there’re toolkits for popular mobile platforms
iOS toolkit
android toolkit
wp7 toolkit
windows azure toolkit for windows phone 7
encapsulates authentication (directly or through proxy)
requests & responses abstraction for cloud storage & SQL Azure
source code is available at: https://watwp.codeplex.com
latest version 1.3.0, sep 30, 2011
supports both Apple push notification & MS push notification
windows azure toolkit for iOS
encapsulates authentication (directly or through proxy)
requests & responses abstraction for cloud storage
supports Apple push notification
source code is available at: https://github.com/microsoft-dpe/wa-toolkit-ios
latest version 1.2.1, aug 31, 2011
windows azure toolkit for android
encapsulates authentication (directly or through proxy)
requests & responses abstraction for cloud storage
source code is available at: https://github.com/microsoft-dpe/wa-toolkit-android
latest version 0.8, aug 31, 2011
demo
we do apps for all mobile platforms
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