March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
514 pages
13h 11m
English
WebSockets are the main gateway for extensions, mashups, and web apps to communicate with the Qlik Engine via the APIs. Luckily, with Chrome DevTools, you are able to monitor the API calls and see what is being sent on any action and what the Qlik Engine returns as an object. For some, the Qlik Engine API can appear as a black box which does what it wants, and the poor documentation as of today does not help with it either. Inspecting the Qlik Sense API WebSocket communication helps to demystify the calls made, which facilitates the development efforts to a large extent. Also, the Qlik Engine API explorer, which is described in Chapter 11, Working with the Qlik Dev Hub, is very useful if you want to ...
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