Has anyone come up with any clever ways to share a common web service across multiple LabVIEW projects? I'm toying with an idea for a generic REST API that could work with multiple applications, and it would be nice if there were a way to build the web service into some sort of library that could be easily included any any *.lvproj. As far as I can tell, though, there doesn't seem to be any way to do this simply; it seems like my only option would be to build a tool that leverages scripting (and *maybe* even some direct XML manipulation of the *.lvproj file) to
- Create a new web service in the selected *.lvproj
- Add the common method VIs
- Configure those method VIs appropriately (e.g. set them as GET, POST, etc.; set output type to JSON, etc.)
- Add the web service to the applicable build specifications
That seems technically *feasible*, but kind of a pain. Wondering if the whole web service could be built into some sort of library/distribution that could pulled into a new project wholesale. Anybody done that?
In particular, it would be *really* nice if it could be done for web services to be included in realtime target applications.
