Getting started with the generic connectivity in Qlik Application Automation

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Our team is continuously working to improve existing connectors and create new ones. We're always looking at ways to increase the connectivity and we ultimately want to allow you to connect to any system regardless if we have a native connector for it.

Available options:

• Call URL block
• HTTP option in the Cloud storage connector
• Generic connectors

Call URL block

This block allows you to make a single API call and allows you to configure some parameters like the URL, HTTP method, query or body parameters & header parameters. More info can be found here.

HTTP in the Cloud storage connector

This option allows you to use the Cloud storage connector to open and read data from files stored on public URLs. 

Generic connectors

The new generic connectors allow you to connect to the APIs of your choice. They have List blocks for the most common types of paging and each block has basic built-in retry functionality to handle rate limits.

We've released 3 of these connectors, each for a specific authentication mechanism used by APIs:

1. API key authentication
2. 3-legged OAuth2 authentication
3. Basic Authentication

Generic connector limits

Each API is implemented differently and some vendors come up with their own flavors when it comes to authentication, paging, or rate limits. We have added multiple options to the generic connectors to interact with different implementations of these functions but we can't make these connectors generic for every possibility. Our goal is to provide a solution for the most common APIs.