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
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I'm attempting to construct a series of Paw calls using the variables feature. I have one situation I'm unable to solve.
At authentication into the server I'm using, I get a JSON response, with one value that looks like this:
endpoint = "https://sub.something.com/thingone/thingtwo.php?token=sometoken&id=blahblah"
The endpoint portion "https://sub.something.com/" is then used as the base for subsequent calls, where a call might be "GET https://sub.something.com/data?id=123".
I don't want to hardcode the endpoint in Paw, as the endpoint will vary based on factors I can't predict at my end.
Is there a way to do basic string processing like this either in Paw, or by calling out to a shell script and using the return value of said script as a Paw variable?
That's doable using that RegExp Match dynamic value extension. Click on that previous link and hit Install Extension.
Type "Regexp" in the field you expect this value to be used. Pick Regexp Match from the completion results:
Then enter a regexp that matches your need, https?://[^/]+/? should be good:
I've put your example string in the screenshot above to show that it works, but you can instead put a "pointer" (Response Dynamic Value) to the response you want:
In the choices, pick Response Parsed Body if you want to parse a JSON or XML from the reponse. If the string is simply in plain text in the response body, pick Response Raw Body.
Once these steps are completed, you've got a working "Pointer" + "Parser" to the response that extract the part of the string you need. You can do the same operation with another regex for the token…
Tip: these dynamic value tokens can be selected like text and copy/pasted (Cmd+C/Cmd+V) :-)
I need to send a Highcharts options object to an asp page so it can be written to a json flat file. These files are later passed to phantomjs via highcharts-convert in order to create some pdfs.
The problem however is stringifying the objects. I keep getting this error:
Uncaught TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON
when I try this:
$.post("myASP.asp", JSON.stringify(myChart.highcharts().options));
There is a sample POST string here http://docs.highcharts.com/#render-charts-on-the-server but I'm not sure how to achieve that with mine. When I paste their sample into my code for testing I get all kinds of unescaped double quote errors. Is that a typo on their part?
I would check if there are curricular references in the JSON objects. As far as I remember that is not supported by the JSON serializer.
One example of this if you have an object with an array of children that refer back to the parent.
I think you can try the following:
{"infile":myChart.getSVG()}
This should get the svg representation of the chart
i am trying to read from xml string But ,
` XmlReader reader=XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(stringXml)`
reader is always none. why is reader objest none ?
You have to call the read function.
reader.Read();
Here is the answer for your question. There seems to be no problem and the XmlReader is ready to be utilized.
Actually, if you are open to use .NetFramework 3.5 and higher you could benefit from using Linq To Xml:
XElement x = XElement.Load(new StringReader(s));
this happened to me in code that had been working for years. there were two paths for populating the xml string used in creating the xReader. The first pulled xml from a text parameter. If the text parameter was empty then it would fetch the string from sql server. If the text parameter was null, however, then I was getting "none" from the xReader. This despite the fact that SQL return perfectly formed xml. If the text parameter was an empty zero-length string, however, then everything worked fine, that is, the fetch to SQL ran, fetch xml and loaded the reader. It was like the runtime .net engine was running both paths simultaneously and giving me the worst possible outcome, instead of the desired outcome.
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'm breaking my head over this for a while now and I have no clue what I do wrong.
The scenario is as followed, I'm using swfupload to upload files with a progressbar
via a webservice. the webservice needs to return the name of the generated thumbnail.
This all goes well and though i prefer to get the returned data in json (might change it later in the swfupload js files) the default xml data is fine too.
So when an upload completes the webservice returns the following xml as expected (note I removed the namespace in webservice):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string>myfile.jpg</string>
Now I want to parse this result with jquery and thought the following would do it:
var xml = response;
alert($(xml).find("string").text());
But I cannot get the string value. I've tried lots of combinations (.html(), .innerhtml(), response.find("string").text() but nothing seems to work. This is my first time trying to parse xml via jquery so maybe I'm doing something fundemantally wrong. The 'response' is populated with the xml.
I hope someone can help me with this.
Thanks for your time.
Kind regards,
Mark
I think $(xml) is looking for a dom object with a selector that matches the string value of XML, so I guess it's coming back null or empty?
The First Plugin mentioned below xmldom looks pretty good, but if your returned XML really is as simply as your example above, a bit of string parsing might be quicker, something like:
var start = xml.indexOf('<string>') + 8;
var end = xml.indexOf('</string>');
var resultstring = xml.substring(start, end);
From this answer to this question: How to query an XML string via DOM in jQuery
Quote:
There are a 2 ways to approach this.
Convert the XML string to DOM, parse it using this plugin or follow this tutorial
Convert the XML to JSON using this plugin.
jQuery cannot parse XML. If you pass a string full of XML content into the $ function it will typically try to parse it as HTML instead using standard innerHTML. If you really need to parse a string full of XML you will need browser-specific and not-globally-supported methods like new DOMParser and the XMLDOM ActiveXObject, or a plugin that wraps them.
But you almost never need to do this, since an XMLHttpRequest should return a fully-parsed XML DOM in the responseXML property. If your web service is correctly setting a Content-Type response header to tell the browser that what's coming back is XML, then the data argument to your callback function should be an XML Document object and not a string. In that case you should be able to use your example with find() and text() without problems.
If the server-side does not return an XML Content-Type header and you're unable to fix that, you can pass the option type: 'xml' in the ajax settings as an override.