Implementing the ballerina connectors for the IFS

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Description

Efforts to develop Ballerina connectors will be highly beneficial for integrating with IFS systems. Based on our research, we have identified a few key areas where these connectors could be particularly impactful:

Connector Areas	Public OpenAPI Specification (OAS) Availability	Public Documentations	Public Authentication
IFS Field Service Management (FSM) REST connector	No	No	No
IFS RESTful API Connector	No	No	No
IFS Cloud Connector	No	No	No

In the table above, the first two connectors mentioned were inspired by Boomi, and the third one was identified by reviewing the IFS documentation.

A primary challenge we have encountered is the inability to locate the official OpenAPI contracts for these connectors and the necessary authentication to access them.

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To provide an update, we had a meeting with VSONE to discuss details about the test environments and the availability of OpenAPI contracts for specific connectors. It was clarified that they don’t have a shareable OpenAPI available, as they are currently working on customer test environments.

We are now discussing setting up a test environment through IFS, where we hope to obtain the OpenAPI from that testing environment. We are waiting to receive the test environment from IFS.

We will update this thread on our progress once access is received.