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[aneel13]

Can someone please guide me through the steps which needs to be followed for starting with the development of a webservice in XCart 5?

Basically, this service will fetch product details from the site.

[razortw]

Hi there.
Are you building a system that should retrieve data from X-Cart and process it in its own backend?
If so, try REST API
* http://kb.x-cart.com/display/XDD/REST+API+documentation

[aneel13]

Hi,

I just want to build a webservice which will fetch X-Cart data whenever that url is called with a post request, it will show the product details in xml format. This will be part of my plugin.

So I will be calling this webservice in my external website just for viewing purposes.

Should I go for REST API for this?

[aneel13]

I don't want to use REST API because in that case my webservice will be dependent on that module. I want my webservice to be active and dependent only when my module is installed.

[qualiteam]

If you don't want to use the free REST API module, you can use its source code as an example to create your own module.
I believe the logic will be very close to the one that is implemented in REST API module.