How can I connect to an API and import JSON or XML data into a form field?
I referenced the Javascript documentation and tried using a Net.HTTP.request. The documentation only shows an example of how to do an MKCOL request, not a GET request.
If I hard-code the cURL value, I get the value "undefined". If I try passing it through a variable (as in the example below), I get the error "Invalid Arguments".
My code looks something like this:
foo = app.trustedFunction(function (cURL) {
app.beginPriv();
var params = {
cVerb: "GET",
cURL: cURL,
oHandler: {
response: function (msg, uri, e) {
var stream = msg;
var string = "";
string = SOAP.stringFromStream(stream);
console.println(string);
console.println(stream);
}
}
};
Net.HTTP.request(params);
app.endPriv();
});
foo("http:/api.somesite.com/data?q=param&apikey=123xyz&mode=xml");
(I didn't try passing data to the form yet, but just tested out the code by printing to the console first).
I am assuming that the variables in the response function (msg, uri, e) are populated by the response from the server? I am not quite sure how to "grab" the data that I want, and why I am getting these errors. Also wondering if I can do it without using SOAP. Thanks in advance!
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