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Gursimrat's avatar
Gursimrat
Leader
11 years ago

Passing parameter from custom component to an endpoint

I am calling an endpoint from a custom component where my requirement is as below:   From a text box, when a user types a query (a string), it will need to be passed in a REST call which will fetch...
  • dhiraj_gophane's avatar
    dhiraj_gophane
    11 years ago
    In reference to my last Comment,
    You can accept the parameter in endpoint as,

    <#assign search_query = http.request.parameters.name.get("QueryParameter","") />
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Gursimrat
Leader

Hi AdamN 

 

Thanks for your response, i am halfway in which I am able to pass the value to the endpoint via custom component, but I am somehow not able to use it inside the endpoint. Below is the change I made to the endpoint code after your suggestion.

 

Endpoint:

 

<#compress>

<#assign search_query = http.request.parameters.name.get("query", "")>

	<#attempt>

<#assign response =  http.client.request("https", "abc:xyz@123.zendesk.com","/api/v2/search.json?query=%5C%22${search_query}%5C%22").get() />

	<#recover>
		<!-- Something -->
	</#attempt>

</#compress>

 

Custom Component Code to pass the value to the parameter

 

$.get( "${kb_endpoint_url}", { search_query : queryValue } )// where queryValue is being passed from a text box
  .done(function( data ) {...

 

When I checked in the firebug, the request was a Success but returened below reponse:

 

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'results' of null 

 

Do you find any loops here?

NicoB's avatar
NicoB
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi Gursimrat 

can you try to replace the URL with this?

 

 

<#assign response =  http.client.request("https", "abc:xyz@123.zendesk.com","/api/v2/search.json?query='${search_query}'").get() />

I think the issue is that the http.client is always trying to encode your URL so if you specify an encoded query you will get a double encoded one :)

 

This is just a guess though..

 

Thanks,

Nico