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Akenefick
Genius
6 months ago

Trouble with http.client.response

I'm making the following http.client.request call in an endpoint. <#assign response = http.client.request("https", "api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com", "/translate?api-version=3.0&to=es&textTyp...
  • MattV's avatar
    MattV
    6 months ago

    Sounds like you're running into freemarker auto-escape. 

    https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/dgui_misc_autoescaping.html

    Basically you need to turn off autoescape or change outputformat to json. Also make sure your endpoint output format is set for application/json (this changes the content-type header in the endpoint response).

    You shouldn't need the ?replace after those changes.

MattV's avatar
MattV
Khoros Staff
6 months ago

Sounds like you're running into freemarker auto-escape. 

https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/dgui_misc_autoescaping.html

Basically you need to turn off autoescape or change outputformat to json. Also make sure your endpoint output format is set for application/json (this changes the content-type header in the endpoint response).

You shouldn't need the ?replace after those changes.

  • Akenefick's avatar
    Akenefick
    Genius
    6 months ago

    Thanks! I finally got it working.

    I surrounded the whole thing with 

    <#noautoesc>
     
    </#noautoesc>
     
    I added .json() to my http.client.request
     
    I was still getting an error because it said it was expecting a string, but it was a sequence instead. I think it didn't like that Microsoft's entire response was an array wrapped in [square brackets] instead of {curly braces}. So, I had to do this 
     
    <#assign output = utils.json.toJson({"output":response.content})/>
     
    Finally, it worked! The escaping is gone, and the weird double quotes are gone. I'm finally getting usable Json.
     
    My final code.
     

     

    <#noautoesc>
<#assign body = http.request.body />
<#--  <#assign body = "[{'Text':'<p class=\"testing\">Hello, what is your name?</p>'}]" />  -->

<#assign response = http.client.request("https", "api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com", "/translate?api-version=3.0&to=es&textType=html")
    .header("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "My Key Here")
    .header("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Region", "eastus")
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .body(body, "application/json")
    .json()
    .post() />

<#if response.hasError>
    ${response.error.message}
<#else>
    <#assign output = utils.json.toJson({"output":response.content})/>
    ${output}
</#if>

</#noautoesc>