Connecting console application to XConnect in Azure Sitecore 9.2

Question

I'm using Sitecore 9.2 scaled environment on Azure, and am trying to make a console application connects to XConnect, am following this link from Sitecore documentation.

In the part shown in the below code, I added the search indexer server URL in the searchWebAPIClient. However, I'm not sure what should be defined in the other 2 APIs (CollectionWebApiClient and ConfigurationWebApiClient). Also, where to define the reporting, ProcessingEngine, search indexer. server.

Can someone please advise?

var collectionClient = new CollectionWebApiClient(new Uri("https://collect.azurewebsites.net/odata"), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });
var searchClient = new SearchWebApiClient(new Uri("https://search.azurewebsites/odata"), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });
var configurationClient = new ConfigurationWebApiClient(new Uri("https://xconnect/configuration"), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });

var cfg = new XConnectClientConfiguration(
            new XdbRuntimeModel(CollectionModel.Model), collectionClient, searchClient, configurationClient);

Answer 1

You just need to copy below two connection strings from CM app service to your console app to connect to XConnect.

<add name="xconnect.collection"                         connectionString="https://XXXXXXXX-xc-search.azurewebsites.net" />
<add name="xconnect.collection.certificate"             connectionString="blah;blah;" />

and then use xconnect.collection connectionstring in all 3 places as shown below-

var xdbCollectionCert = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["xconnect.collection.certificate"].ConnectionString;
var xdbClient = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["xconnect.collection"].ConnectionString;
var odataEndpoint = xdbClient + "/odata";
var collectionEndpoint = xdbClient + "/configuration";

var options = CertificateWebRequestHandlerModifierOptions.Parse(xdbCollectionCert);

var certificateModifier = new CertificateWebRequestHandlerModifier(options);

var clientModifiers = new List<IHttpClientModifier> { new TimeoutHttpClientModifier(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 20)) };

var collectionClient = new CollectionWebApiClient(new Uri(odataEndpoint), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });
var searchClient = new SearchWebApiClient(new Uri(odataEndpoint), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });
var configurationClient = new ConfigurationWebApiClient(new Uri(collectionEndpoint), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });

var cfg = new XConnectClientConfiguration(new XdbRuntimeModel(CollectionModel.Model), collectionClient, searchClient, configurationClient);

Answer 2

For all of three API's we need to give XConnect hostname only as I did below.

 var collectionClient = new Sitecore.XConnect.Client.WebApi.CollectionWebApiClient(new Uri("https://XConnect Site hostname/odata"), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });
 var searchClient = new Sitecore.XConnect.Client.WebApi.SearchWebApiClient(new Uri("https://XConnect Site hostname/odata"), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });
 var configurationClient = new Sitecore.XConnect.Client.WebApi.ConfigurationWebApiClient(new Uri("https://XConnect Site hostname/configuration"), clientModifiers, new[] { certificateModifier });

Please let me know if getting any issue with it.