Pulling JSON data from a third party web API to fill PDF's form fields

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March 1, 2021
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I have an active Web API that I want to refernce in my script within Adobe Acrobat so that I can pull data from and populate the form fields in my document. I have read around and saw similar questions on these forums but nothing that matched my need or even worked for me. Any help in this area? Thanks in advance.

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Joel Geraci

Community Expert

It's possible but non-trivial. How much JavaScript experience do you have?

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Nirvana87$Author

Known Participant

Thanks for your response. I am fairly confident in my JS abilities. I actually just got this code working which I saw parts of referenced somewhere else on this site and managed to stitch together to fit my need. However, it only works when run in the console, but I am attempting to add this to 'Run a Javascript' under the button option so when a user enters a specific Case Number it will pull from the API which sends back data in a JSON object and I can go forward with auto populating the other form fiels. Again, I am successfully getting the JSON object logged to the console but ONLY when running this script in the console. When I add this same code to 'Run a Javascript' button I recieve the error: SOAP.stringFromStream(stream) is not a function.

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Nirvana87$Author

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var API = "https://...{path}..CaseNum="
var caseno = this.getField("caseno");

var fullURL = API + caseno;


var getData = 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);
              var data = eval("(" + string + ")"); 
              console.println(data.caseNumber);
              
            }
        }
    };

    Net.HTTP.request(params);

    app.endPriv();

});

getData(fullURL);

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