Chapter 9. The Server-side Glide API

In 2003, CEO Fred Luddy started a company called GlideSoft, which specialized in IT Service Management applications. Three years later, the company changed its name to ServiceNow, but the Glide name stuck for the API!

The Glide API is available on both the server and the client (though only a subset of the API is available on the client), and it consists largely of several classes about which we'll learn in this chapter; several of which are:

• Server-side Glide classes:

  • GlideRecord

  • GlideAggregate

  • GlideElement

  • GlideDate and GlideDateTime

  • GlideSession

  • GlideSystem

• Client-side Glide classes:

  • GlideRecord

  • GlideAjax

  • GlideForm

  • GlideList2

  • GlideMenu

  • GlideUser

Each class in the Glide API may consist of methods (executable functions within the class), and properties (variables stored within the class, which may be set on initialization of a new instance of the class).

Note

This chapter largely consists of API documentation. We recommend that you read through it once...