将 SuiteTalk 应用程序连接到 NetSuite 上的 RESTlet

Question

I have a SuiteTalk application developed in C# that handles order imports. I need to be able to connect the application to NetSuite so I can manually launch the imports in the event of a failure from within the user interface. I am not familiar with writing a listener application in C# so I am looking for some pointers in how I could get this to work.

-Edit- To add a limitation: I am unable to use a web server to accomplish any of this.

How I think it would work: I am envisioning that the button push in NetSuite would make a request to the SuiteTalk application which would in turn start the task in question.

My questions:

• Does this logic sound right?
• Where should I start with this?
• What resources would you recommend to bring someone up to speed quickly?

Answer 1

Presumably your c# application runs on your own system and uses the SOAP interface to talk to Netsuite.

There is no reasonable way to have Netsuite directly trigger your external application without your application being on the public internet listening for a request from Netsuite. I believe you can write suitescript to access remote web services but that effectively requires a web server.

The other possibility is to create some sort of data in Netsuite that your application can poll to see if it should execute. I'm not sure the best way to do this. Off the top of my head I think you could create a custom record type and have the button create a custom record. Your C# app could then check to see if a record of that type exists and if so execute and delete the record.