Having a Service use another service

[SBarnes]

HI Mike,

I need to develop a service to produce a debtor statement where I want to hand in a Debtor ID , I know the report ID inside the plugin and obviously the parameter name for the report, are there any issues that would be caused to the API by having the new service do

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ReportsServices rs = new ReportsServices();

Fill up the necessary report ReportsPDFGETRequest and call

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ServiceStack.Web.IHttpResult Get(ReportsPDFGETRequest request)

and return that?

[SBarnes]

Ok to answer my own question yes it can be done, code below but there are two things

1. You should use base.ResolveService to instantiate the service class see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12811182/servicestack-how-to-call-my-service-from-code as to why.
2. You need to instantiate ReportParameters yourself as there is no constructor on ReportsPDFGETRequest doing it.

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         JiwaApplication.Manager manager = this.SessionAs<JiwaAuthUserSession>().Manager;
         ReportsServices rs = base.ResolveService<ReportsServices>();
         ReportsPDFGETRequest pdfreq = new ReportsPDFGETRequest();
         pdfreq.ReportID = RESTAPIPlugin.StatementReportID;
         pdfreq.ReportParameters = new List<ReportParameter>();
         pdfreq.AsAttachment = true;
         pdfreq.ReportParameters.Add(new ReportParameter(){Name = "Pass_SP_StartingDebtorAccountNo", Value = request.DebtorID});
         pdfreq.ReportParameters.Add(new ReportParameter(){Name = "Pass_SP_EndingDebtorAccountNo", Value = request.DebtorID});
         pdfreq.ReportParameters.Add(new ReportParameter(){Name = "Pass_SP_AsAtDate", Value = DateTime.Now.ToString()});
         return  rs.Get(pdfreq);