Retrieve Data from External Web Service/Resful API from within Oscript module

yaronlu

Hi,

I have a requirment to create a custom mudule that intercept a document load event,

and calls an external web service (from another domain).

After it retrieves the service's data, it should inject it to the uploaded document's category.

(I want this data update to be reflected in calssic and smart ui).

All is clear to me except the part of retrieving data from external URL.

Can Someone refer me to a code snippet, that shows a retrieval of data from WS from within Oscript?

(I tried to figure out myself from searching Eclipse module code, but got lost there...)

Thanks in advance!

Yaron

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appuGmail

"Can Someone refer me to a code snippet, that shows a retrieval of data from WS from within Oscript?"

Oscript has the "socket" object which shows you in its example how to call a website.In effect a WS is a website

However using a "Socket" is very much troublesome in LL so one will do something like this

Main Code calls a Java Object.the JavaObject will call the necessary web service and broker the deal for you.

While I do not know your architecture perhaps it may be easier if you can fire off your WS call from a browser and submit that into oscript

in which case the browser is doing the heavy lifting.

..... appnair appunair( Livelink Rocks )

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Retrieve Data from External Web Service/Resful API from within Oscript module Posted byyaron_lu@malam.com (Lulay, Yaron)On 01/14/2018 09:37 AM

Hi,I have a requirment to create a custom mudule that intercept a document load event, and calls an external web service (from another domain).After it retrieves the service's data, it should inject it to the uploaded document's category.(I want this data update to be reflected in calssic and smart ui). All is clear to me except the part of retrieving data from external URL.Can Someone refer me to a code snippet, that shows a retrieval of data from WS from within Oscript?(I tried to figure out myself from searching Eclipse module code, but got lost there...) Thanks in advance!Yaron
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The most recent updates of Content Server have a RestClient library built-in class that is intended to help with calling REST APIs from within OScript. Depending on your application and the version of Content Server you are using, this might meet your needs. To see an example of it in use, you can look at code that interacts with the Document Conversion Server REST API (for example, View as Web Page, Find Similar, MIME Type detection).

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Retrieve Data from External Web Service/Resful API from within Oscript module

Posted byyaron_lu@malam.com (Lulay, Yaron) On 01/14/2018 09:37 AM

Hi,