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mayank
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12 years ago

Lithium API to create a module to get the 3 most recent posts on other server

Lithium API to create a module to get the 3 most recent posts on other site

  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    12 years ago

    You will need to traverse the response object to find out the data you want

     

    Examples:

     

        success: function(data) {
		var resp = data.response;
		
		alert("Response status is: " + resp.status);
		alert("Response messages: " + resp.node_message_context.message.length);
		alert("First message subject : " +resp.node_message_context.message[0].subject.$);
		 
    }

     Of course the above are merely examples and should not be used in production - but it gives you an idea.

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  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago

    Hi Mayan,

     

    welcome to the Lithosphere! I am not sure which use case you have in mind. What do you mean by "on other server"? Can you clarify a bit more what you are trying to achieve?

     

    • Do you mean display recent posts from the Lithum community on another site?
    • Or, do you mean using custom components to retrieve informations from a URL outside the community?

    In the first case, the Lithium Activecast widgets can help you out. There is a specific one to retrieve the latest topics.

    In the second case, you may want to investigate using the Studio Endpoints (which allow you to make http calls to external sites)

     

    Cheers,

  • mayank's avatar
    mayank
    Ace
    12 years ago

    Thanks a lot for sharing your valuable time.I want to :

     

    •  display recent posts from the Lithum community on another site?

     

    Can you please share its steps

  • mayank's avatar
    mayank
    Ace
    12 years ago

    Can anybody help me in fetching latest post with rest api...

     

    Here is my code :

     

    $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    async: false,
    // dataType: "text/HTML",
    crossDomain:true,
    url: 'http://community.edifecs.com/restapi/vc/posts',
    success: function(response) {
    alert('success');
    }
    });

     

    Output :(Firebug Console)

    XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: moz-nullprincipal:{3237c74c-1574-44cd-9806-2b8d3fe09433} Line Number 1, Column 1:

  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago

    Hi Mayank,

     

    thanks for the additional details. The easiest way could be to implement the "Latest Topics" activecast widget. If you download the PDF attached in this article you will find all the steps for the implementation at pages 4 and 5.

     

    Let us know if that helps,

     

  • mayank's avatar
    mayank
    Ace
    12 years ago

    Can you please give me a way so that i can done it with Rest api...

  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    Khoros Oracle
    12 years ago

    Hi mayank, since you're doing a cross-domain request, you may need to explicitly set the dataType to jsonp. If I recall correctly, XML/HTML is not valid for cross-domain requests. To get JSON data back from the REST API you can add restapi.response_format=json to your request.

  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    Khoros Oracle
    12 years ago

    I think you'll need to close your ajax call (seems to be missing a "});" at the end), but otherwise it looks ok. Is it not working for you?

  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago

    You will need to traverse the response object to find out the data you want

     

    Examples:

     

        success: function(data) {
		var resp = data.response;
		
		alert("Response status is: " + resp.status);
		alert("Response messages: " + resp.node_message_context.message.length);
		alert("First message subject : " +resp.node_message_context.message[0].subject.$);
		 
    }

     Of course the above are merely examples and should not be used in production - but it gives you an idea.