fmRESTor

Leverage the RESTful FileMaker Data API with ease

Forget About Learning FileMaker Data API in Detail

Just create a new object, passing it necessary parameters to connect to the database, and use our easy to understand methods to access or modify your data. fmRESTor will take care of authentication, exceptions, logging, and even session preservation in order for your code to be a well-behaving client for the FileMaker Data API without you having to worry about these technical details.

We created fmRESTor for ourselves to make it easier and faster to interact with FileMaker databases from within custom web apps we create, without having to waste our valuable time on repeating writing the same patterns over and over again, hunting for unnecessary bugs, and to be able to produce clean, easy to read and easy to maintain code.

fmRESTor.js

We created fmRESTor.js as a second flavor of fmRESTor, to make it easier and faster to interact with FileMaker databases from within custom web apps we did not want to rely on intermediate PHP scripts hosted on a web server. Being able to easily interact with FileMaker Data API from within JavaScript makes the interaction much faster and suitable for projects like complex user interfaces used within a Web Viewer on a FileMaker layout.

Features

• One object class conveniently handles everything
• Automatically generates authentication token
• Re-uses existing token to avoid unnecessary additional connections
• Automatically re-generates expired token
• Handles exceptions and provides meaningful error results
• Can handle raw form data for easier container uploads
• Provides customizable debug logging
• Simple way to run scripts and gather database information with FileMaker Server 18