What  equivalent  "callSystem" for Illustrator

hey everybody. my sincere apologies for the delay. i got busy, and then i forgot.

Heres the workaround code to make a request to some website from illustrator (or theoretically, any other adobe software that doesnt offer a native solution). Warning, this was purpose built for my purposes quite a while ago and i havent bothered updating it since its working for me, so it likely needs tweaks and is definitely pretty messy. and it might have some dependencies from my own utilities, but those are generic and easy.

for my needs, i have a single URL and i just paste in an identifier (order number or something) to the end of the URL and that gives me the data i need. If you are accessing data from some public API that requires credentials to be sent with the payload, im not exactly sure how to manage that. but hopefully this mess helps point someone in the right direction.

//curl data from a specified url and return the data as an anonymous object
function curlData ( url, arg )
{
	var result, status = "empty";;
	var htmlRegex = /<html>/gmi;

	var scriptText,
		scriptFile,
		executor,
		killExecutor;



	url = url + arg;


	//variables for the local data stuff
	var documentsPath = "path/to/documents/folder/"
	var curlDataPath = documentsPath + "curlData/"
	var curlDataFolder = new Folder( curlDataPath );
	if ( !curlDataFolder.exists )
	{
		curlDataFolder.create();
	}
	var localDataFile = File( curlDataPath + "curlData.txt" );


	//clear out the local data file..
	//make sure we always start with an empty string
	localDataFile.open( "w" );
	localDataFile.write( "" );
	localDataFile.close();


	if ( $.os.match( "Windows" ) )
	{
		//write the bat file that will be
		//used to execute the vbs script
		writeVbsFile();

		//define the executor script
		//cscript.exe runs the .vbs file as though the CL is being used
		scriptText = "cscript.exe \"";

		//path to vbs script
		scriptText += curlDataPath + "socket_xhttpRequest.vbs\"";

		//vbs argument 1 = url
		scriptText += " \"" + url + "\" \"";

		//vbs argument 2 = path to curlData.txt file
		scriptText += curlDataPath + "curlData.txt";

		scriptFile = File( curlDataPath + "batFile.bat" );
		writeScriptFile( scriptFile, scriptText )

		executor = scriptFile;
	}
	else
	{
		scriptText = [
			"do shell script ",
			"\"curl \\\"" + url,
			"\\\" > \\\"",
			curlDataPath + "curlData.txt" + "\\\"\""
		].join( "" );

		/

		scriptFile = File( curlDataPath + "curl_from_illustrator.scpt" );
		writeScriptFile( scriptFile, scriptText );
		executor = File( resourcePath + "curl_from_illustrator.app" );
		var localExecutor = File( documentsPath + "curlData/curl_from_illustrator.app" );
		if ( localExecutor.exists )
		{
	
			executor = localExecutor;
		}
	}


	var maxExecutorCalls = 5;
	var currentExecutorCalls = 0;

	var checkDelay = 200;
	var numberOfChecks = 200;
	var totalChecks = 0;

	var parseFailResults = 0;

	do
	{
		totalChecks = 0;
		//go get the data

		executor.execute();


		//check the data
		for ( var a = 0; a < numberOfChecks && status !== "valid"; a++ )
		{
			if ( status != "valid" )
			{
				checkData()
				totalChecks++;
			}
			else if ( status === "html" )
			{
				break;
			}
			$.sleep( checkDelay );
		}




	}
	while ( status !== "valid" && status !== "html" && currentExecutorCalls < maxExecutorCalls );


	//validate
	if ( status === "html" || ( status === "empty" && parseFailResults.length ) )
	{
		alert( "The request to \"" + url + arg + "\" returned invalid data for " + arg );
	}

	return result;



	function readDataFile ()
	{
		var file = localDataFile;
		file.open( "r" );
		var contents = file.read();
		file.close();

		return contents;
	}

	function writeScriptFile ( file, txt )
	{
		file.open( "w" );
		file.write( txt );
		file.close();
	}

	function writeVbsFile ()
	{

		//go to the network and copy the contents of the
		//socket_xhttpRequest.vbs file
		//this allows me to manage updates by updating a
		//single central file, but each person will be executing
		//their own copy, which should avoid someone being denied
		//access because another person is already executing the file?

		//central file
		var srcFile = File( dataPath + "socket_xhttpRequest.vbs" );

		//local file
		var destFile = File( curlDataPath + "socket_xhttpRequest.vbs" );

		//read the source file's contents
		srcFile.open( "r" );
		var srcContents = srcFile.read();
		srcFile.close();

		//write the contents to the local file
		writeDatabase( destFile, srcContents );
	}

	function checkData ()
	{
		var contents = readDataFile();
		if ( contents === "" )
		{
			status = "empty";
		}
		else if ( contents.match( htmlRegex ) )
		{
			status = "html";
		}
		else
		{
			try
			{
				result = JSON.parse( contents );
				status = "valid";
			}
			catch ( e )
			{
				status = "parseFail";
				parseFailResults++;
			}
		}
	}



}

There is no equivalent. The best you can do is write a shell / bash script onto a local file and run it via File.execute() in scripting, or ignore scripting altogether and handle it from a CEP plugin via NodeJS and child_process.