Obtaining the sso_id as a string in a macro?
I'm new to the world of lithium programming... any help on the following would be appreciated. I'm working on an api request which I want to parameterize with a user's sso_id. Not finding the sso...
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Found the solution...
rest(...) is returning XML, which in the Freemarker template is represented by a custom node type. while ${node_var} as a convenience will extract and render a single text node, you need to work on the node_var with some operators to actually extract the text as a string. Here's my working solution....
<#assign sso_id=rest("/authentication/sessions/current/user/sso_id").value.@@text/>
<#assign req = req.parameter("username", sso_id) />
Gory details here...
https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/xgui.html
--b
