Please note, due to Wunderlist's discontinuation on May 5, 2020, this component is now deprecated. Our solution can still be used to aid in your migration to other systems and databases. Our Wunderlist components are still available within the SSIS Productivity Pack and our technical support team can provide support for our solution but no new updates to the components will be released.
Setting Up a Wunderlist REST Connection Manager
The REST Connection Manager is an SSIS connection manager that can be used to establish connections and facilitate data integration with REST based APIs and services such as Wunderlist, among many more.
Integration for Wunderlist is enabled by the following two components:
To add a new connection, right-click the Connection Manager area in your Visual Studio project, and choose "New Connection..." from the context menu. You will be prompted the "Add SSIS Connection Manager" window. Select the "REST (KingswaySoft)" item to add a new REST Connection Manager.
The REST Connection Manager contains 2 pages of configuration.
- General
- Advanced Settings
General Page
The General page allows you to specify connection properties and login credentials for the Wunderlist REST service:
- Service Name
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The REST service that will be connected to.
- Base URL:
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The Base URL that will be used to connect to Wunderlist. This property has a default value, which should generally never change. The default value can be changed by clicking the "lock" icon and entering a new value.
- API Throttle Rate
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The API Throttle Rate will limit the number of requests that can be sent per second.
- Wunderlist Authentication
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This option allows you to specify your application when working with the Wunderlist REST service App.
- App Provided by KingswaySoft: use the Client Id and Secret that is provided by KingswaySoft for your convenience when setting up the connection.
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My Own: specify your own application registration with Wunderlist
- Client Id
- Client Secret
- RedirectUrl
- Client Id
- App Provided by KingswaySoft: use the Client Id and Secret that is provided by KingswaySoft for your convenience when setting up the connection.
- Generate Token (In App)...
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The Generate Token File (In App)... button completes the entire OAuth authentication process inside of the toolkit. All you need to do is log in to the service endpoint and authorize our app to generate your token.
- Generate Token (In Browser)...
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The Generate Token File (In Browser)... button completes the OAuth authentication using your default browser. After you click this button simply follow the steps in the dialog to generate your token.
- Access Token
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If you have an Access Token that you would like to use, enter it in the access token field. If you do not have a Wunderlist access token you can generate one by clicking the Generate Token button.
- Test Connection
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After all the connection information has been provided, you may click the "Test Connection" button to test if the user credentials entered can connect to the selected REST service.
Advanced Settings Page
- Proxy Mode
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The Proxy Mode option allows you to specify how you want to configure the proxy server setting. There are three options available.
- No Proxy
- Auto-detect (Using system-configured proxy)
- Manual
- Proxy Server
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Using the Proxy Server option allows you to specify the name of the proxy server for the connection.
- Port
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The Port option allows you to specify the port number of the proxy server for the connection.
- Username (Proxy Server Authentication)
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The Username option (under Proxy Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user account.
- Password (Proxy Server Authentication)
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The Password option (under Proxy Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user's password.
Note: The Proxy Password is not included in the connection manager's ConnectionString property by default. This is by design for security reasons. However, you can include it in your ConnectionString if you want to parameterize your connection manager. The format would be ProxyPassword=myProxyPassword; (make sure you have a semicolon as the last character). It can be anywhere in the ConnectionString.
- Timeout
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The number of seconds requests should wait before timing out.
- Retry on Intermittent Errors
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The retry on intermittent errors option determines if requests will be retried when there is an error. If this option is checked requests will be retried up to 3 times.
- Ignore Certificate Errors
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This option can be used to ignore those SSL certificate errors when connecting to Wunderlist servers.
Warning: Enabling the "Ignore Certificate Errors" option is generally NOT recommended, particularly for production instances. Unless there is a strong reason to believe the connection is secure - such as the network communication is only happening in an internal infrastructure, this option should be unchecked for best security.