is there a way to retrieve the body from a POST request in Logic App?
Sending the POST request:
Parsing the response:
This of course allows me to write the body from the actual HTTP response, but I'm looking for a way to log the body from the POST request.
Any ideas are much appreciated !
UPDATED
I was thinking about this approach as well but I haven't mentioned yet that I basically need to iterate over an array and for each iteration send an HTTP POST request.
So, I'm initializing the variable outside the for loop:
Inside the for loop, iterating over the results array:
But as I go trough my logic and finally arrive at the step where I would like to reference THAT variable to write it to a blob, I can't select it:
You can always reference a variable using the expression tab. In this case you would enter the following into the textbox on the expresison tab of the dynamic content modal:
variables('Body_to_send_in_POST_request')
Reference: Reference guide to workflow expression functions in Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate
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I havent find ressources online to solve my problem.
I'm creating an app with React Native that fetches and shows news articles from my database.
At the top of the page, there's some buttons with filters inside, for example:
one button "energy",
one button "politics"
one button "people"
one button "china"
etc...
Everytime I press one of those buttons, the filter corresponding is stored in an array "selectedFilters", and I want to fetch my database to only show articles that are corresponding to those filters.
Multiple filters can be selected at the same time.
I know one way of doing it, with a POST request:
await fetch('187.345.32.33:3000/fetch-articles', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
body: 'filters=${JSON.stringify(selectedFilters)}'
});
But the fact is, I read everywhere, and I also was teached, that POST request are used when creating or removing, and theoretically, what I should use is a GET request.
But I don't know how to send an Array with GET request.
I read online that I can pass multiple parameters to my url(for example: arr[0]=selectedFilters[0]&arr[1]=... but the fact is I never know in advance how many items will be in my array.
And also I'm not sure if I could write exactly the same way as my POST request above, but with GET:
await fetch('187.345.32.33:3000/fetch-articles', {
method: 'GET',
headers: {'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
body: 'filters=${JSON.stringify(selectedFilters)}'
});
or if I can only pass items in the url, but does this work ?
await fetch('187.345.32.33:3000/fetch-articles?arr[0]=${selectedFilters[0]', {
Or even better if something like this could work:
await fetch('187.345.32.33:3000/fetch-articles?filters=${JSON.stringify(selectedFilters)}', {
Thanks for your help
You should definitely use a GET request if your purpose is to fetch the data.
One way of passing the array through the URL is by using a map function to create a comma separated string with all the filters. This way you would not need to know in advance how many elements are in the array. The server can then fetch the string from the URL and split it on the commas.
One more method you can try is to save a filters array on the server side for the session. You can then use a POST/PUT request to modify that array with new filter as user adds or remove them. Finally you can use an empty GET request to fetch the news as the server will already have the filters for that session.
But the fact is, I read everywhere, and I also was teached, that POST request are used when creating or removing, and theoretically, what I should use is a GET request.
Yes, you do read that everywhere. It's wrong (or at best incomplete).
POST serves many useful purposes in HTTP, including the general purpose of “this action isn’t worth standardizing.” (Fielding, 2009)
It may help to remember that on the HTML web, POST was the only supported method for requesting changes to resources, and the web was catastrophically successful.
For requests that are effectively read only, we should prefer to use GET, because general purpose HTTP components can leverage the fact that GET is safe (for example, we can automatically retry a safe request if the response is lost on an unreliable network).
I'm not sure if I could write exactly the same way as my POST request above, but with GET
Not quite exactly the same way
A client SHOULD NOT generate content in a GET request unless it is made directly to an origin server that has previously indicated, in or out of band, that such a request has a purpose and will be adequately supported. An origin server SHOULD NOT rely on private agreements to receive content, since participants in HTTP communication are often unaware of intermediaries along the request chain. -- RFC 9110
The right idea is to think about this in the framing of HTML forms; in HTML, the same collection of input controls can be used with both GET and POST. The difference is what the browser does with the information.
Very roughly, a GET form is used when you want to put the key value pairs described by the submitted form into the query part of the request target. So something roughly like
await fetch('187.345.32.33:3000/fetch-articles?filters=${JSON.stringify(selectedFilters)}', {
method: 'GET'
});
Although we would normally want to be using a URI Template to generate the request URI, rather than worrying about escaping everything correctly "by hand".
However, there's no rule that says general purpose HTTP components need to support infinitely long URI (for instance, Internet Explorer used to have a limit just over 2000 characters).
To work around these limits, you might choose to support POST - it's a tradeoff, you lose the benefits of safe semantics and general purpose cache invalidation, you gain that it works in extreme cases.
I am trying to do backend less development in Angular while working disconnected from the backend resources.
Most functionality works fine, but if I try to use any resource a second time I get an error:
Error: Unexpected request: GET /localPTicket?ticket=123
No more request expected
The scenario I am mocking is one where, for every request to a backend service, I have to first make a Get call to get a valid Proxy Ticket, the response from this is then passed to the next API call.
I have set up a plunker that demonstrates the issue:
https://plnkr.co/edit/KKa6MXcnbK1gcMiBB7MI?p=preview
I think that the issue is related to flushing the mock requests, but my understanding of the documentation is that using ngMockE2E this should not be an issue.
Thanks for any pointers!
Les
It's because your are using global regexes.
Global regexes in JavaScript can be very confusing since they have a state. The first time you call it it returns the first match in the string, the second time you call it it returns the next match in the string. If there are no more matches it will return that there were no matches and reset its state.
Simply remove the g from the end of your regexes and it should behave as you expect.
I'm new to AngularJS and I am currently building a webapp using a Django/Tastypie API. This webapp works with posts and an API call (GET) looks like :
{
title: "Bootstrap: wider input field - Stack Overflow",
link: "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978...",
author: "/v1/users/1/",
resource_uri: "/v1/posts/18/",
}
To request these objects, I created an angular's service which embed resources declared like the following one :
Post: $resource(ConfigurationService.API_URL_RESOURCE + '/v1/posts/:id/')
Everything works like a charm but I would like to solve two problems :
How to properly replace the author field by its value ? In other word, how the request as automatically as possible every reference field ?
How to cache this value to avoid several calls on the same endpoint ?
Again, I'm new to angularJS and I might missed something in my comprehension of the $resource object.
Thanks,
Maxime.
With regard to question one, I know of no trivial, out-of-the-box solution. I suppose you could use custom response transformers to launch subsidiary $resource requests, attaching promises from those requests as properties of the response object (in place of the URLs). Recent versions of the $resource factory allow you to specify such a transformer for $resource instances. You would delegate to the global default response transformer ($httpProvider.defaults.transformResponse) to get your actual JSON, then substitute properties and launch subsidiary requests from there. And remember, when delegating this way, to pass along the first TWO, not ONE, parameters your own response transformer receives when it is called, even though the documentation mentions only one (I learned this the hard way).
There's no way to know when every last promise has been fulfilled, but I presume you won't have any code that will depend on this knowledge (as it is common for your UI to just be bound to bits and pieces of the model object, itself a promise, returned by the original HTTP request).
As for question two, I'm not sure whether you're referring to your main object (in which case $scope should suffice as a means of retaining a reference) or these subsidiary objects that you propose to download as a means of assembling an aggregate on the client side. Presuming the latter, I guess you could do something like maintaining a hash relating URLs to objects in your $scope, say, and have the success functions on your subsidiary $resource requests update this dictionary. Then you could make the response transformer I described above check the hash first to see if it's already got the resource instance desired, getting the $resource from the back end only when such a local copy is absent.
This is all a bunch of work (and round trips) to assemble resources on the client side when it might be much easier just to assemble your aggregate in your application layer and serve it up pre-cooked. REST sets no expectations for data normalization.
It's regarding content length.
I know its use. It tells the receiver that "this much" data I am sending.
It's available with both request & response. In Java, we have setContentLength() method for response, we can set content length to some value using this method and browser is going to read only up to that point in the body.
In request, we don't have any setContentLength() method - at least not in Java. So I believe browser sets this as per the data request is containing. Now let’s say if I modify this request in between – change a parameter value to some bigger value, how do I change the content length? If I don’t change content length, server doesn’t read the complete body – it only reads up to content length & ignores rest of the body content.
I hope my question is clear.
Thanks.
PS: I am changing request in a C filter in web server before request goes to application server.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to change content length of request, I don't think you can achieve that simply, the only way i can think of is parse the content of request, the strip unneeded data and the generate the request that simple mimics original request but contains stripped data, it also depends on the whenever you are using POST or GET requests
I have a BeautifulSoup.Tag object which I want to transfer in an http post request.
Specifically this is a request a task in google app engine would perform.
This is the code:
taskqueue.add(url='/maintenance', method='post', params={'row': row})
When I receive the request on the other end, the parameter row is a unicode string. How do I get my original object back? As I undersand json eval won't work for this kind of object, so is there another solution Am I compelled to pass simple objects only?
Hmmm. Beautiful soup is kind of an evaluator. So I can send the object's html and the reuse beautiful soup.
I did it this way:
taskqueue.add(url='/maintenance', params={'element': str(myObject)})
and then reused soup inside the task itself:
payload = self.request.get('element')
soup = BeautifulSoup(payload)
I guess you can try python's pickle functions to pass the value by string.
http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html
Another way will be use memcache.
just store the value to memcache and pass the key to tasks.
for example
memcache.set("some_random_generate_key", row)
taskqueue.add(url='/maintenance', method='post', params={'row_key': "some_random_generate_key"})
then in the task handlers, just get the value from memcache again.
(in fact, google appengine also used pickle to store value in memcache)
memcache.get(row_key)