Changes in This Release for Oracle REST Data Services Installation, Configuration, and Development Guide
Changes in Oracle REST Data Services Release 19.2
The following are changes in Oracle REST Data Services Installation, Configuration, and Development Guide Release 19.2.
New Features
The following features are new in this release:
- The installer is now included with a script file that provides
privileges to the user to install, upgrade, validate and uninstall ORDS
See ORDS Installer Privileges Script and Privileges Required for Oracle REST Data Services.
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Starting with ORDS 19.2 release, on a system with ORDS installed, you can perform a set of environment services operations.
- The following two new subprograms are included in ORDS PL/SQL package and ORDS ADMIN PL/SQL package respectively:
Changes in Oracle REST Data Services Release 19.1
The following are changes in Oracle REST Data Services Installation, Configuration, and Development Guide Release 19.1.
New Features
The following features are new in this release:
- Support for different mechanisms to add hyperlinks to REST resources.
- A new chapter, Enabling ORDS Database API is included in this release. This chapter explains how to enable the Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) Database API.
- The user with DBA privileges can install, upgrade, validate or
uninstall ORDS in Oracle 11g or a pluggable database. This user must have the DBA
role.
See unresolvable-reference.html#GUID-52E9155F-B36D-4F40-B0C0-AA7311159828 and Privileges Required for Oracle REST Data Services.
Other Changes
The following are the additional changes made in this release:
DBMS_SCHEDULER
job,CLEAN_OLD_ORDS_SESSIONS
has been deprecated and replaced byORDS_HOUSEKEEPING_JOB
which will perform the same action of deleting expired sessions that are older than one day.During upgrade, the
CLEAN_OLD_ORDS_SESSIONS
job will be replaced byORDS_HOUSEKEEPING_JOB
, if the old job already exists. Otherwise, the new job is created when the first schema is enabled.
Changes in Oracle REST Data Services Release 18.4
The following are changes in Oracle REST Data Services Installation, Configuration, and Development Guide Release 18.4.
Changes in Oracle REST Data Services Release 18.3
The following are changes in Oracle REST Data Services Installation, Configuration, and Development Guide Release 18.3.
New Features
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Support for OAuth 2 Client Credentials authentication.
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Parameters for Installing into the CDB.
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The following new configuration file parameters are included in this release:
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security.requestAuthenticationFunction
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procedure.rest.preHook
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jdbc.auth.enabled
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The following new chapter is included in this release:
See Oracle REST Data Services Administration PL/SQL Package Reference
Other Changes
The following are the additional changes made in this release:
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Updated
security.requestValidationFunction
andsecurity.maxEntries
parameters. -
The information about consolidated list of implicit parameters used in REST service handlers is provided in this release. See Implicit Parameters.
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Starting with this release, the information about the following SQL*Plus statements are not available as they are restricted:
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COPY
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PASSWORD
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XQUERY
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WHENEVER OSERROR
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WHENEVER SQLERROR
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Starting with this release, following list of possible values for
system_variable
are not supported:-
SET XQUERY BASEURI {text}
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SET XQUERY ORDERING {UNORDERED | ORDERED | DEFAULT}
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SET XQUERY NODE {BYVALUE | BYREFERENCE | DEFAULT}
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SET XQUERY CONTEXT {text}
See Set System Variables.
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Changes in Oracle REST Data Services Release 18.2
The following are changes in Oracle REST Data Services Installation, Configuration, and Development Guide Release 18.2.
New Features
The following feature is new in this release
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Oracle REST Data Service no longer installs
ORDS_METADATA
schema into theCDB$ROOT
container. Only theORDS_PUBLIC_USER
(common user) is installed in the CDB$ROOT. See Using the Multitenant Architecture with Oracle REST Data Services.
Desupported Feature
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Oracle NoSQL Database feature is desupported and unavailable in this release
Other Changes
The following is an additional change in this release:
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Oracle WebLogic Server supports 12g Release 2 (12.2.1.3) or later for this release. See
Supported Java EE Application Servers.