Reading app properties from the app

Mikhail_Dikov

How can we read the app properties defined in the app profile in OTAG within the app?

Werner de Jong

I believe you can achieve that with the AppWorks Settings API.

John_Wilkinson1

A couple of things the swagger doc doesn't make explicit:

1. The key is <your app name>.<your setting name>. For example, if your app is demo_1.0.zip, and you have llama.default=http://llama.com in app.properties, then you would GET gateway/v2/settings/demo.llama.

2. You need to provide authentication to GET a setting. To do this:

   for mobile apps, add an http header called otagtoken with the value of the javascript variable otag.auth.otagtoken

   for Gateway web apps, include /webaccess/js/otag.js, and use otag.ajax() instead of jquery.ajax(); this wrapper sets the header for you

Mikhail_Dikov

Thank you John this last part of getting the token is what I was missing.

Mikhail_Dikov

While I was able to work directly with jquery.ajax, it looks like I cannot access otag.ajax. All I get is:

Object # has no method 'ajax'

Is it possible that I need to reference other js files other than jquery and otag.js?

John_Wilkinson1

Otag.js is currently just for web apps; mobile html5 apps should use $.ajax for now.