Realtime Compute for Apache Flink provides an all-in-one development, O&M, and management platform. You can also call the API operations of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink by using various methods, such as OpenAPI Explorer and Alibaba Cloud SDKs. To improve your development efficiency when you use Realtime Compute for Apache Flink, you can select an appropriate method based on your business requirements. This topic describes the basic information about the API operations of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink and the relationships among the entities of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink.
Basic information
Alibaba Cloud provides OpenAPI Explorer for developers to understand and efficiently use the API operations of various Alibaba Cloud services. OpenAPI Explorer integrates multiple features related to API operations, such as intelligent search, documentation, online debugging, SDK download, sample code, call error diagnostics, and call statistics. In OpenAPI Explorer, you can call the API operations of Alibaba Cloud services and view API requests and responses. In addition, OpenAPI Explorer automatically generates the corresponding SDK sample code to facilitate the use of Alibaba Cloud services. For more information, see What is an API?
API versions
Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI Explorer manages the versions of Alibaba Cloud service APIs by version number. For example, Realtime Compute for Apache Flink supports the API of the 2022-07-18 version. 2022-07-18 is an API version number instead of a date. You are provided with the latest public information about the API. 2022-07-18 is the up-to-date version of the Realtime Compute for Apache Flink API.
Console | API version | Description |
Development console | We recommend that you use this version. | |
2020-05-01 | We recommend that you do not use this version. | |
Selling console | We recommend that you use this version. | |
2019-06-01 | We recommend that you do not use this version. |
Endpoints
You must select an endpoint based on the region in which your Realtime Compute for Apache Flink workspace resides to reduce the latency.
Endpoints of the development console of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink
Endpoints of the selling console of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink
For example, the virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint of the development console of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink in the Singapore region is ververica-vpc.ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com.
Online debugging
You can use OpenAPI Explorer to call API operations online, search for API operations, and dynamically generate SDK sample code. This simplifies the use of the API operations. Before you call API operations, take note of the following information provided by Realtime Compute for Apache Flink: API versions, endpoints, and integration methods. Select a debugging page based on the API operations that you want to call for different consoles of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink.
Console | Page |
Development console | |
Selling console |
Integration methods
Method | Supported |
Yes | |
Yes | |
Custom encapsulation | Yes |
Relationships among the entities of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink
