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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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NicoB
Lithium Alumni (Retired)

Hi Gursimrat 

could you please post the code in your <#recover> section?

What I don't understand is where you are trying to access the results variable since I cannot see any such variable in your code and I think that's where the issue is happening.

 

Thanks,

Nico

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Gursimrat
Leader
11 years ago

Hi NicoB

 

results are basically the JSONP response I am trying to read. And adding the code to recover didn't help.

 

{"count":1,"results":[{"result_type":"article","position":0,"comments_disabled":false,"label_names":[],"vote_sum":0,"locale":"en-us","section_id":200164994,"url":"https://community-name.zendesk.com/hc/api/v2/articles/200820164-What-are-these-sections-and-articles-doing-here-.json","id":200820164,"html_url":"https://community.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200820164-What-are-these-sections-and-articles-doing-here-","draft":false,"source_locale":"en-us","title":"What are these sections and articles doing here?","updated_at":"2014-02-07T23:46:17Z","promoted":false,"name":"What are these sections and articles doing here?","created_at":"2014-02-07T23:46:17Z","translation_ids":[201089774],"author_id":243252074,"vote_count":0}],"previous_page":null,"facets":null,"next_page":null}

 

Workflow is as below:

From a text box in the custom component, when a user enters a query, and on the click of the search button, the parameter will be passed on to the endpoint. The endpoint will then call the external zendesk API via http request and the returned results will be served to custom component which will display them on the forums.