I'm currently developing a Firefox add-on(using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/1.0/ ) that consumes an API where the return data is in xml.
My problem is that I need to parse the returned data, and would like to do that using a xml object.
Since the request module only supports JSON and Text ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/1.0/packages/addon-kit/docs/request.html#Response ) I need to convert the response.text to XML.
The code looks like this:
var Request = require('request').Request
.......
var req = Request({
url: https://to-the-api.com,
content: {
op: 'get-the-data-op',
password: "super-sec",
user: "username"
},
onComplete: function (response) {
dataAsText = response.text;
console.log("output: " + dataAsText);
}
});
req.post();
I have tried to user (new DOMParser).parseFromString(response.text, 'text/xml') but unfortunately it just fails with a error like ReferenceError: DOMParser is not defined
The question is if anyone of you guys have been able to create a Xml object inside a Firefox add-on, and if so, how?
Looks like the capability to parse response as xml was present, but has been removed. check out this bugzilla reference
Can't you use a normal XMLHttpRequest if you want to process the response as XML?
If DOMParser is unavailable you can try E4X:
var xml = new XML(response.text);
alert(xml.children().length());
You want to use the XMLHttpRequest object to handle your xhr request. Then when you get a response back access the responseXML object of the request variable. In the responseXML you'll have the documentElement and can use the querySelectorAll or querySelector to find elements you want. In each element you want just grab the textContent you need.
Here's an example to get you going (this looks for the 'xmls' element in the response):
var request = new require("xhr").XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', 'https://to-the-api.com', true);
request.onreadystatechange = function (aEvt) {
if (request.readyState == 4) {
if(request.status == 200) {
var xmls = request.responseXML.documentElement.querySelectorAll("xmls");
for (var i = 0; i < xmls.length; i++) {
console.log("xml", i, xmls[i], xmls[i].textContent);
}
}
else {
console.log('Error', request.responseText);
}
}
};
request.send(null);
Related
I am trying to do use the post method for a simple suitescript program, i am very new to this.
In Netsuite i have written a suitescript as follows.
function restPost()
{
var i = nlapiLoadRecord('department', 115);
var memo = nlapisetfieldvalue('custrecord225', ' ');// this is a customfield, which i want to populate the memo field, using rest client in firefox
var recordId = nlapiSubmitRecord(i);
}
i have created a script record and uploaded this suitescript and even copied the external URL to paste it in restclient.
In Restclient(firefox plugin), pasted the external URL, i have given the method as post, header authorization given, content-type: application/json, and in body i put in {"memo":"mynamehere"};
In this the error i get is
message": "missing ) after argument list
I even tried it by writting other suitescript programs the errors i get is as follows:
Unexpected token in object literal (null$lib#3) Empty JSON string
Invalid data format. You should return TEXT.
I am kinda new to the programming world, so any help would be really good.
I think you are trying to create a RESTlet for POST method. Following is the sample code for POST method -
function createRecord(datain)
{
var err = new Object();
// Validate if mandatory record type is set in the request
if (!datain.recordtype)
{
err.status = "failed";
err.message= "missing recordtype";
return err;
}
var record = nlapiCreateRecord(datain.recordtype);
for (var fieldname in datain)
{
if (datain.hasOwnProperty(fieldname))
{
if (fieldname != 'recordtype' && fieldname != 'id')
{
var value = datain[fieldname];
if (value && typeof value != 'object') // ignore other type of parameters
{
record.setFieldValue(fieldname, value);
}
}
}
}
var recordId = nlapiSubmitRecord(record);
nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG','id='+recordId);
var nlobj = nlapiLoadRecord(datain.recordtype,recordId);
return nlobj;
}
So after deploying this RESTlet you can call this POST method by passing following sample JSON payload -
{"recordtype":"customer","entityid":"John Doe","companyname":"ABCTools Inc","subsidiary":"1","email":"jdoe#email.com"}
For Authorization you have to pass request headers as follows -
var headers = {
"Authorization": "NLAuth nlauth_account=" + cred.account + ", nlauth_email=" + cred.email +
", nlauth_signature= " + cred.password + ", nlauth_role=" + cred.role,
"Content-Type": "application/json"};
I can understand your requirement and the answer posted by Parsun & NetSuite-Expert is good. You can follow that code. That is a generic code that can accept any master record without child records. For Example Customer Without Contact or Addressbook.
I would like to suggest a small change in the code and i have given it in my solution.
Changes Below
var isExistRec = isExistingRecord(objDataIn);
var record = (isExistRec) ? nlapiLoadRecord(objDataIn.recordtype, objDataIn.internalid, {
recordmode: 'dynamic'
}) : nlapiCreateRecord(objDataIn.recordtype);
//Check for Record is Existing in Netsuite or Not using a custom function
function isExistingRecord(objDataIn) {
if (objDataIn.internalid != null && objDataIn.internalid != '' && objDataIn.internalid.trim().length > 0)
return true;
else
return false;
}
So whenever you pass JSON data to the REStlet, keep in mind you have
to pass the internalid, recordtype as mandatory values.
Thanks
Frederick
I believe you will want to return something from your function. An empty object should do fine, or something like {success : true}.
Welcome to Netsuite Suitescripting #Vin :)
I strongly recommend to go through SuiteScript API Overview & SuiteScript API - Alphabetized Index in NS help Center, which is the only and most obvious place to learn the basics of Suitescripting.
nlapiLoadRecord(type, id, initializeValues)
Loads an existing record from the system and returns an nlobjRecord object containing all the field data for that record. You can then extract the desired information from the loaded record using the methods available on the returned record object. This API is a core API. It is available in both client and server contexts.
function restPost(dataIn) {
var record = nlapiLoadRecord('department', 115); // returns nlobjRecord
record.setFieldValue('custrecord225', dataIn.memo); // set the value in custom field
var recordId = nlapiSubmitRecord(record);
return recordId;
}
I need to post a PDF file to a remote REST API, and I can't for the life of me figure it out. No matter what I do, the server responds that I have not yet associated an object with the file parameter. Let's say that I have a PDF called test.pdf. This is what I've been doing so far:
// Using an HttpClientRequest named req
req.headers.contentType = new ContentType('application', 'x-www-form-urlencoded');
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String fileData = new File('Test.pdf').readAsStringSync();
sb.write('file=$fileData');
req.write(sb.toString());
return req.close();
Thus far, I've tried virtually every combination and encoding of the data that I write() to the request, but to no avail. I've tried sending it as codeUnits, I've tried encoding it using a UTF8.encode, I've tried encoding it using a Latin1Codec, everything. I'm stumped.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can use MultipartRequest from the http package :
var uri = Uri.parse("http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/create");
var request = new http.MultipartRequest("POST", url);
request.fields['user'] = 'john#doe.com';
request.files.add(new http.MultipartFile.fromFile(
'package',
new File('build/package.tar.gz'),
contentType: new ContentType('application', 'x-tar'));
request.send().then((response) {
if (response.statusCode == 200) print("Uploaded!");
});
Try using the multipart/form-data header rather than x-www-form-urlencoded. This should be used for binary data, also can you show your full req request?
void uploadFile(File file) async {
// string to uri
var uri = Uri.parse("enter here upload URL");
// create multipart request
var request = new http.MultipartRequest("POST", uri);
// if you need more parameters to parse, add those like this. i added "user_id". here this "user_id" is a key of the API request
request.fields["user_id"] = "text";
// multipart that takes file.. here this "idDocumentOne_1" is a key of the API request
MultipartFile multipartFile = await http.MultipartFile.fromPath(
'idDocumentOne_1',
file.path
);
// add file to multipart
request.files.add(multipartFile);
// send request to upload file
await request.send().then((response) async {
// listen for response
response.stream.transform(utf8.decoder).listen((value) {
print(value);
});
}).catchError((e) {
print(e);
});
}
I used file picker to pick file.
Here is the codes for pick file.
Future getPdfAndUpload(int position) async {
File file = await FilePicker.getFile(
type: FileType.custom,
allowedExtensions: ['pdf','docx'],
);
if(file != null) {
setState(() {
file1 = file; //file1 is a global variable which i created
});
}
}
here file_picker flutter library.
For outgoing HTTP requests (using meteor.http.call) I can define params and/or data. The results are then available (via results.content).
How do I access and parse the body/contents/data of incoming HTTP requests?
Using iron-router, I have got as far as this:
Router.map(function () {
this.route('httpTest', {
path: '/httpTest',
action: function () {
var request = this.request;
var response = this.response;
console.log('request_body: '+ request.body);
// request.body does not work. what should it be????
N.B. I understand that I CAN access query parameters, but I want to access form data and/or json data from the body of an incoming http request.
The request is an incoming http message, which is a Readable Stream, so you can get the data of the request by reading from that stream.
The following should work (but I haven't tested it):
var readable = this.request;
var alldata = "";
readable.on('data', function(chunk) {
alldata += chunk;
})
readable.on('end', function() {
console.log('do something with alldata');
});
It may not be working because of the missing where: 'server'. Here is a working example:
Router.map(function() {
this.route('test', {
where: 'server',
action: function() {
console.log(this.request.body.make);
console.log(this.request.body.model);
this.response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
this.response.end('hello!\n');
}
});
});
From the command line I can hit this route with:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"make":"honda","model":"civic"}' http://localhost:3000/test
Which prints the expected honda and civic in the server's terminal. It looks like this.request.body is already parsed so you can access any variables directly which is nice if your input is json.
To read the raw body, without having Node.js JSON-ify it, in a synchronous way, I used this:
Router.route("my/api", function() {
var rawBody = "";
var chunk;
while ((chunk = this.request.read()) !== null) {
rawBody += chunk;
}
}, { where: "server" });
(the asynch way proposed in another answer here didn't worked for me, although it should as per Node.js documentation).
I am trying to make a POST request.
Here my code:
var myModel = new MydModel({
content: "ciao"
});
console.log(myModel.get("content")); // "ciao"
myModel.save();
If I look to the network activity it looks like this:
The response part {id:0, content:"", ……}
In the header part: Request Payload {"content":"ciao"}
Here my model:
define([], function () {
var MyModel = Backbone.Model.extend({
url: function url ()
{
return "http://localhost/users";
}
});
return MyModel;
});
Is it my problem or is it in the server part?
send/receive vs request/response
a server receives requests and sends responses
a client sends requests and receives responses
in short
if {id:0, content:"", ……} (the response) is wrong, it's your server
if {"content":"asdasdsa"} (the request) is wrong, it's your client
There is little problem with receiving JSON-payload that "Backbone-client" sends to your Apache-server.
All you need to do is to manually parse JSON-payload from input on the server side ("php://input", for PHP), like this:
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'PUT' || $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
$postStr = file_get_contents("php://input");
//json_decode throws error or returns null if input is invalid json
try {
$json = json_decode($postStr, true);
if(empty($json)) {
throw new Exception("Not valid json");
}
//must not be json, try query str instead
} catch(Errfor $e) {
$postVars = parse_str($postStr);
foreach($postVars as $key=>$data) {
$_POST[$key] = $data;
}
}
}
Full explanation you can find here:
http://colinbookman.com/2014/04/08/php-puts-posts-and-backbone-js/
I want to parse tweets with this function with content served via Node.js/Express/Jade client side.
String.prototype.parseHashtag = function() {
return this.replace(/[#]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/g, function(t) {
var tag = t.replace("#","%23")
return t.link("http://search.twitter.com/search?q="+tag);
});
};
I would like to do it client side so that for example when a new tweet is added that can be parsed to with the same code and displayed directly and not have to go back and forth to the backend and be parsed.
I've made it work with this code, but is there any way to make it simpler, prettier?
!= "<script type='text/javascript'>"
!= "var body = '"
= contents[c].body
!= "';"
!= "document.write(body.parseHashtag());"
!= "</script>"
Yes you can. I will suggest you the following way:
script(type='text/javascript')
var body = contents[c].body;
document.write(body.parseHashtag());
you should also see jade documentation for it:enter link description here