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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...
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    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
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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.

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NicoB
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

It might not be the cause but I noticed that while in the endpoint you're looking for a "query" parameter:

 

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

 

 

in your JavaScript code it seems like you're passing a parameter with name "search_query":

 

$.get( "${kb_endpoint_url}", { search_query : queryValue } )/