API

The LemonEdge API underpins the entire platform and provides you access to every aspect of the system as granular as you like. For detailed documentation on our API, Auto-Code Designers and how to build solutions on the platform please see our developer documentation.

Our platform is written entirely in .Net Core providing you the ability to utilise our API using any .Net language such as c#, f# or VB.Net. The API has 3 broad ways of interacting with it:

• Design API
  This covers creating your entities, their properties and interacting with them.
• Context API
  This covers querying, creating, updating and deleting your entites. It also covers creating your own algorithms that can run on the client or server tasks, and the rest/odata interface the web service creates.
• UI API
  This covers creating grids, views, commands and other controls for interacting with your entities in any of our multi-platform LemonEdge clients.

The API is more than just an interface for interacting with your designs though. It also automates most of the back-end, middle tier and front-end work for you in a true low-code manner. All you need concentrate on is creating your entities, and the algorithms associated with them - the system takes care of everything else, including:

Area	Development	LemonEdge	Legacy
Core Code	Create Entity Interface	Manual	Manual
	Decorate Entity Interface with LemonEdge attributes	Manual	Not Required
	Add Custom Validation Logic	Automatic	Manual
	Create Entity Classes	Automatic	Manual
SQL Database	Create/Upgrade Tables	Automatic	Manual
	Create Tables for Auditing	Automatic	Manual
	Ensure foreign keys/ indexes, etc setup	Automatic	Manual
	Create Stored Procedures for Insert, Delete, Update	Automatic	Manual
	Create functions for querying data including permissions, auditing and sandboxing	Automatic	Manual
Database Access Code	Update DB Contexts to be aware of entities	Automatic	Manual
	Ensure Context can work with permissions, auditing and sandboxing	Automatic	Manual
Web Service Code	Add Entities controller logic	Automatic	Manual
	Add permissions, validation, etc to controller for entities	Automatic	Manual
Core Code Integrate entities into query tools	Automatic	Manual
	Integrate entities into core importing/exporting	Automatic	Manual
	Ensure all operations are executed in transaction with validations & permissions checks	Automatic	Manual
	Taking algorithms and allowing them to be offloaded to server tasks	Automatic	Manual
Client Code	Create a grid of entities	Easily pick columns of entity	Manual
	Sorting, filtering, searching, opening, deleting, etc consistently in every grid	Automatic	Manual
	Create a view for a single entity	Easily pick fields for view	Manual
	Ensuring views work consistently across core app, console app and web view	Automatic	Manual
	Ensuring client works consistently across multi-platforms of linux, windows and macs	Automatic	Manual