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Welcome to the Frontier wiki! Here you'll learn how configure and use the Frontier framework.

But before you proceed, you should be familiar with the usage of %CSP.REST, if you don't know how to create a simple %CSP.REST application, then it's recommended to learn about it from the official documentation.

You'll also need Caché 2016 or higher.

Table of Contents

1. Concept and guidelines
2. Getting started
3. Differences with %CSP.REST: What to do and what not to do
4. The OnSetup and the context object: A brief overview
5. Routes I: Replying to http requests
6. Routes II: Handling and enforcing errors
7. Routes III: Mixing output types (marshalling)
8. Routes IV: Disabling the strict mode
9. Routes V: Considerations about using Map.
10. Arguments I: Identifying route or query parameters.
11. Arguments II: Understanding how typing works
12. Arguments III: Defining default values
13. Arguments IV: Variable arity
14. Arguments V: Validations and gotchas
15. Payloads I: The %DynamicObject argument
16. Payloads II: The %DynamicArray argument
17. Payloads III: The UNMARSHALL parameter
18. Files API I: Serving files
19. Files API II: Handling uploads
20. SQL API I: Using SQL queries
21. SQL API II: Using named queries
22. SQL API III: Introducing the inline query builder
23. Authentication I: Protecting your routes
24. Authentication II: How strategies work
25. Authentication III: Enforcing a named strategy to a route
26. Authentication IV: Removing an authentication from a route
27. Authentication V: Implementing custom strategies
28. Reporter I: Sending an notification when an error happens
29. Reporter II: How notifications work
30. Reporter III: Implementing a reporter
31. Property formatters: Setting up a naming convention
32. Shared object: Same data over all router methods