I am trying to use BizTak WCF-WebHttp adapter to send to Service Desk Plus CMDB API using Variable Mapping.
When trying using the browser, it works fine. Service Desk Plus CMDB API requires an URI like (strictly shortened for readability):
http://host.com/api/cmdb/ci?OPERATION_NAME=read&TECHNICIAN_KEY=Mykey&format=XML&INPUT_DATA=<?xml version='1.0'?>
<API>
<name>email#host.com</name>
</API>
I have used the URI http://host.com/api/cmdb/ci and URL Mapping.
<BtsHttpUrlMapping>
<Operation Url="?OPERATION_NAME=read&TECHNICIAN_KEY=MyKey&format=XML&INPUT_DATA=<?xml version='1.0'?>
<API>
<name>email#host.com</name>
</API>"/>
</BtsHttpUrlMapping>
This works fine, but I need a more dynamic approach. I tried using Variable Mapping, so I replaced the hard coded email address with a variable.
<BtsHttpUrlMapping>
<Operation Url="?OPERATION_NAME=read&TECHNICIAN_KEY=MyKey&format=XML&INPUT_DATA=<?xml version='1.0'?>
<API>
<name>{email}</name>
</API>"/>
</BtsHttpUrlMapping>
Trying to save the URL Mapping with the variable I get an error.
WCF-WebHttp Transport Properties
Error saving properties.
(System.InvalidOperationException) The UriTemplate
?OPERATION_NAME=read&TECHNICIAN_KEY=MyKey&format=XML&INPUT_DATA=<?xml version='1.0'?><API><name>{email}</name></API>
is not valid; each portion of the query string must be of the form 'name=value', when value cannot be a compound segment. See the documentation for UriTemplate for more details.
If I try a variable that is not within the escaped XML string, like with the key, then it works fine.
<BtsHttpUrlMapping>
<Operation Url="?OPERATION_NAME=read&TECHNICIAN_KEY={key}&format=XML&INPUT_DATA=<?xml version='1.0'?>
<API>
<value>email#host.com</value>
</API>"/>
</BtsHttpUrlMapping>
My intention is to be able to use a variable within the escaped XML string. If that is not possible; I will have to turn to a dynamic adapter and Create the URI and URL mapping in an orchestration.
Did u understand why it said each portion of the query string must be of the form 'name=value? There are just a few ways to make UriTemplates work.
See how a UriTemplate works here. Here is an example that is valid:
weather/{state}/{city}?forecast={day}
So in your case you should make everything after INPUT_DATA= a variable. Which means the whole escaped XML string you were talking about.
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Backbone.js maintains routing information in a URL after the hash mark, e.g.:
http://localhost:3000#page/hardware/table/?action=details&actionTargetId=5&actionTargetName=10.3.177.185&actionTarget=host
Even though the routing information is in the format ?p1=v1&p2=v2&p3=v3, this portion is not technically part of the url query string since it comes after the hash mark.
My question is if I add an actual query string to our app's urls like this:
http://localhost:3000?newparam=newvalue#page/hardware/table/?action=details&actionTargetId=5&actionTargetName=10.3.177.185&actionTarget=host
is there any possibility of the "newparam" url parameter interfering with the backbone portion?
the problem is your not actually creating a legit query string. your mixing your route with your parameters.
your example is formatted as:
domain ? param # route ? other params
as soon as a questionmark appears in a url everything after it is interpreted as a query string. (in this case) even your route.
personally i suggest using the html5 pushstate.
Backbone.history.start({pushState: true})
this will give you clean(er) urls
http://localhost:3000/page/hardware/table/?newparam=newvalue&action=details&actionTargetId=5&actionTargetName=10.3.177.185&actionTarget=host
that will help your routes to not interfere with your parameters.
I'm working with spring mvc. I've set up a web form that has two simple text inputs. On controller, I use #ModelAttribute to let spring build the bean from the web form.
The problem comes when user puts on those text fields specials characters, like 酒店 and this kind of stuff, spring doesn't read it as utf-8, and they become the usual bad-encoded string.
I've checked web.xml and there's the utf-8 encoding filter, all pages are marqued as utf-8 and browser is sending right charset headers. Any idea on what's going on?
You may want to check this out:
http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?81858-ResponseBody-and-UTF-8
The short of it is that if you are using annotated methods then the messageconverter being used has a default character set. You can change this setting in your web.xml by setting the supported media types.
However, if your service doesn't like that media type, you may get a 406 error. You can create your own string message converter and set the default encoding, but there is no easy way with the built in HttpStringMessageConverter.
Alternately you can re-encode a string to a different character set:
String newresponse = new String(responseString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");
You may also want to check out the related question here: How to get UTF-8 working in Java webapps?
the solution is simple by add produces = "text/plain;charset=UTF-8" to request mapping you can force spring mvc to encode the returned text.
I have an MVC3 Action that takes a parameter (a URL) that may have a query string in it. My action signature looks like this:
GetUrl(string url)
I expect to be able to send it urls, and it works every time unless there is a query string in the url. For example, if I navigate to:
MyController/GetUrl/www.google.com
the url parameter comes accross as "www.google.com" -Perfect. However, if I send
MyController/GetUrl/www.google.com/?id=3
the url parameter comes accross as "www.google.com/" How do I get MVC3 to give me the whole URL in that parameter? -Including the query string?
It's simple enough to just URL.Encode the passed in URL on the page but you're opening your self to some possible security problems.
I would suggest you encrypt the url then encode it then pass that as your value, the protects you from having people just passing in anything into your app.
That's because system considers id=3 as its own query string. When you construct the link in the view, you need to use #Url.Encode to convert raw url string to encoded string to be accepted as parameter of the controller.
I'm using ASP.NET UrlRoutingModule directly (not through MVC) to map certain routes to their handlers:
RouteTable.Routes.Add(new Route("products/{name}", handler));
Then, at request time, I'm getting the values from each route:
RouteData routeData = HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData;
routeData.Values.TryGetValue("name", out value);
Everything fine so far, I'm getting the proper values for each route. My problem is encoding: I want to get the raw value of a route data. Example: for the route above, if the requested URL is http://example.com/products/word%2Dword the resulted "name" is "word-word". What I want though is the exact value "word%2Dword".
I know that with ASP.NET I can get the raw unprocessed URL using Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_URL"] but unfortunately I cannot use this here.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
EDIT
My specific problem is that I would like to get more products in a single request using their names. I have for example the following product names: "student,pupil" and "sick,ill" (their name contains a comma). I'm also using a comma to separate names in the request.
I handle the encoding on the client side so the GET request looks like this: http://example.com/products/student%2Cpupil,sick%2Cill (I'm encoding each name separately but I'm not encoding the separator).
On the server side the "name" parameter will be automatically decoded by ASP.NET and the result is: "student,pupil,sick,ill" so now I don't know which is the separator. Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_URL"] returns the URL as I want it ("products/student%2Cpupil,sick%2Cill") so I suppose there has to be a way to get the raw value as a route data.
The "raw value" you're seeing isn't actually the original value, it's what was encoded to make the URL safe for the HTTP Protocol.
http://example.com/products/word%2Dword for instance started out as http://example.com/products/word-word and is turned back into word-word as it comes out of the HTTP transport layer.
If you pass it through Server.URLEncode you will get back the same encoded value (%2D instead of -) - but if you can't use Server variables, are you going to have access to the Server object?
I have a Biztalk orchestration that posts to a http site. the response that comes back is of xmlDocument type, but it only contains a 0, no html/xml at all. All I want to do is set that 0 to a string or something to output it, but I cannot use any of the xmldocument functions because the xml is not well formed, and I cant use maps because there is no schema to work with. Trying to use any xml function returns an "invalid root level" error.
You can use a string variable and use Xpath to set the value from the response message in an Expression Shape.
You can use a XMLDocument Message and create it in an Assign Shape. You can assign the string variable to an element in the message.
You might look at using a Pipeline Component to wrap the response - e.g. have a look at the Flat File samples here