Eikon Desktop and Proxy API running simultaneously with SxS

aquilesjlp300

Is it possible to run simultaneously Eikon Desktop + Eikon Proxy API in any of these 2 scenarios?

1) With a common sub.

2) With 1 unique sub to both of the applications.

Can this be achieved with Side-by-Side API integration? What possibilities are available in order to achieve this?

Alex Putkov.1

You can use Eikon data retrieval APIs and Side-by-Side API in any combination: you can simultaneously run multiple applications, and each of those applications can use Eikon data retrieval APIs or Side-by-Side API, or both.

aquilesjlp300

Okok, so the answer to usage of Eikon Proxy + Eikon Desktop simultaneously with SxS is affirmative, thank you Alex.

Do you have any materials (video or document tutorials) that I can adapt to achieve this purpose? I'm a bit lost and I would like to learn how to achieve this part.

Thanks for any further suggestions you might have.

Alex Putkov.1

I'm not sure I understand the challenge. You can use SxS API in your application as described in the documentation for SxS API and you can use Eikon data retrieval APIs as described in the documentation for those APIs. Think of SxS API and data retrieval APIs as completely separate. The only thing that unites SxS API and Eikon data retrieval APIs is that they all have runtime dependency on Eikon, i.e. they all require that Eikon application is running on the same machine.

aquilesjlp300

Thanks for your input Alex!

Ok, so when you say:
"they all require that Eikon application is running on the same machine."

You just mean Eikon Desktop must be up and running first (like the tutorial of SxS states)..And after that we attempt to do the other connections, right?

Would you recommend then, that we attempt to run Eikon Proxy API only after we successfully establish a connection between Postman-SxS and Eikon desktop?

Do you have any examples around we could use that might come close to what we are trying to achieve? The official tutorials are not very helpful for our case (no mean to disrespect).

Alex Putkov.1

@aquilesjlp300

I mean two things: that Eikon Desktop is running first and that the applications using SxS and Eikon Data APIs run on the same machine where Eikon desktop is running.

I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what you're looking to achieve here or what challenges you're looking to solve, so it's hard for me to make any recommendations. I'm not certain about this, but I get a feeling that you consider Eikon API Proxy and Eikon desktop as two separate entities that you could run independently. This is wrong. In the context of using SxS API Eikon API Proxy is part of Eikon desktop and cannot be separated from it. When you launch Eikon desktop, Eikon API Proxy is launched automatically (in one of the eikonbox.exe processes that Eikon desktop kicks off).