Using Web Services

Creating and retrieving any of the Master Data Services objects explored in this chapter are completed using the same MDS web service operations, MetadataCreate and MetadataGet, respectively. While these two calls can be extremely powerful, they require users to create an array of different objects to successfully create and get data from the web service. In the examples in this section, the encapsulation allows developers using these calls to ignore internal IDs and work with only common object names when coding against the MDS web service. Throughout the rest of the book, we will provide examples of calls to encapsulate common coding scenarios.

Creating a Model

The first object that must be created in the Master Data Services system is a model. We can create a new model with a minimum of information from the user.