I am trying to work with a simple HTTPService. The problem is that my webservice is conscious of the order of arguments it gets. I will tell the problem with an example:
var service:HTTPService = new HTTPService();
var params:Object = new Object();
params.rows = 0;
params.facet = "true";
service.send(params);
Note that in the above code I have mentioned the parameter rows before facet, but the url I recieve is facet=true&rows=0. So I recieve the argument rows before facet and hence my webservice does not work. I figured out that the contents of array is always sent in alphabetical order, which I dont want.
Is there any way I can achieve explict ordering of parameters sent?
Note that I am not in power of changing the logic of webservice(its basically a RPC service supporting both desktop and web client).
Thanks.
I am assuming you are using a get method. Instead of passing params to the HTTPService, build a url string. You can pass get params just by changing that string then calling the service.
service.url = "originalURL" + "?" + "rows=0" + "&" + "facet=true";
service.send();
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I'm trying to make a search form to use on an api. However when the user types in the search field more then one name I want it to break the string into pieces and make a new string with a + between every keyword. I have no idea how to do this however.
Try this
var searchString:String = "nameOne nameTwo nameThree";
var whiteSpacePattern:RegExp = /\s+/g;
var replacedString:String = searchString.replace(whiteSpacePattern, "+");
trace(replacedString); // nameOne+nameTwo+nameThree
More information about String.replace : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7f00.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7ef1
I want to make an API call where the response is in XML format.
This is the API description: http://www.dictionaryapi.com/products/api-collegiate-dictionary.htm
I have registered and I have a key to use in the request URL.
Could anyone give me an idea of how to make the call and analyse the response?
Thankyou.
Something along the lines of:
var request = WebRequest.Create("http://www.dictionaryapi.com/api/v1/references/collegiate/xml/hypocrite?key=1234");
var response = request.GetResponse();
var xdoc = XDocument.Load(response.GetResponseStream());
Then you can grab what you need like:
xdoc.Element("ElementName");
I have been trying to find the question to my answer but I'm unable to and finally I'm here. What I want to do is access the value passed to a webpage (GET, POST request) using asp.net. To be more clear, for example:
URL: http://www.foobar.com/SaleVoucher.aspx?sr=34
Using asp.net I want to get the sr value i.e 34.
I'm from the background of C# and new to ASP.NET and don't know much about ASP.NET.
Thanx.
Can you refer to this QueryString
Here he says how to access the query string using:
Request.Url.Query
That is not called a Header, but the Query String.
the object document.location.search will contain that and the javascript to get any query string value based on the key would be something like:
function getParameterByName(name) {
name = name.replace(/[\[]/, "\\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\\]");
var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)"),
results = regex.exec(location.search);
return results == null ? "" : decodeURIComponent(results[1].replace(/\+/g, " "));
}
code from other question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/901144/28004
I want to dynamically populate a link with the URI of the current request, but set one specific query string parameter. All other querystring paramaters (if there are any) should be left untouched. And I don't know in advance what they might be.
Eg, imagine I want to build a link back to the current page, but with the querystring parameter "valueOfInterest" always set to be "wibble" (I'm doing this from the code-behind of an aspx page, .Net 3.5 in C# FWIW).
Eg, a request for either of these two:
/somepage.aspx
/somepage.aspx?valueOfInterest=sausages
would become:
/somepage.aspx?valueOfInterest=wibble
And most importantly (perhaps) a request for:
/somepage.aspx?boring=something
/somepage.aspx?boring=something&valueOfInterest=sausages
would preserve the boring params to become:
/somepage.aspx?boring=something&valueOfInterest=wibble
Caveats: I'd like to avoid string manipulation if there's something more elegant in asp.net that is more robust. However if there isn't something more elegant, so be it.
I've done (a little) homework:
I found a blog post which suggested copying the request into a local HttpRequest object, but that still has a read-only collection for the querystring params. I've also had a look at using a URI object, but that doesn't seem to have a querystring
This will work as long as [1] you have a valid URL to begin with (which seems reasonable) [2] you make sure that your new value ('sausages') is properly escaped. There's no parsing, the only string manipulation is to concatenate the parameters.
Edit
Here's the C#:
UriBuilder u = new UriBuilder(Request.Url);
NameValueCollection nv = new NameValueCollection(Request.QueryString);
/* A NameValueColllection automatically makes room if this is a new
name. You don't have to check for NULL.
*/
nv["valueOfInterest"] = "sausages";
/* Appending to u.Query doesn't quite work, it
overloaded to add an extra '?' each time. Have to
use StringBuilder instead.
*/
StringBuilder newQuery = new StringBuilder();
foreach (string k in nv.Keys)
newQuery.AppendFormat("&{0}={1}", k, nv[k]);
u.Query = newQuery.ToString();
Response.Redirect(u.Uri.ToString());
UriBuilder u = new UriBuilder(Request.Url);
NameValueCollection nv = new NameValueCollection(Request.QueryString);
nv["valueofinterest"] = "wibble";
string newQuery = "";
foreach (string k in nv.Keys)
{
newQuery += k + "=" + nv[k] + "&";
}
u.Query = newQuery.Substring(0,newQuery.Length-1);
Response.Redirect(u.ToString());
that should do it
If you can't find something that exists to do it, then build a bullet-proof function to do it that is thoroughly tested and can be relied upon. If this uses string manipulation, but is efficient and fully tested, then in reality it will be little different to what you may find any way.
Here's another one for you to help me solve: I have an ASP.NET website that uses AJAX (asynchronous) calls to am .ashx handler, passing a query string parameter to get some information from the database.
Here's an example of how it works:
Client-side (Javascript) code snippet that makes the asynchronous call to the handler:
/* Capture selected value from a DropDownBox */
var dropdown = document.getElementById(DropDownID);
var selectedValue = dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
/* Make the call to the handler */
var url = "MyHandler.ashx?param=" + selectedValue;
var ajaxObj = new Ajax();
ajaxObj.doRequest(url, MyCallback, args, connectionFailed);
When I load the webform (that contains this AJAX call) for the first time, it sends the right query string to the handler (I checked it using debug in Visual Studio), like param = Street Joseph Blíss. That's the right behavior I want it to have.
The thing is that when I load that webform again (and all subsequent times), that í character from "Blíss" appears in server-side as Ã-. As that's the key from the entity I'm trying to select on server-side database access script, it doesn't work as it worked on 1st webform load.
I tried encoding the query string on client-side and decoding it on server-side, using something like this:
Client-side (Javascript):
var encodedParam = encodeURIComponent(selectedValue);
/* Make the call to the handler */
var url = "MyHandler.ashx?param=" + encodedParam ;
Server-side (ASP.NET, C#):
string encodedParam = context.Request.QueryString["param"];
string value = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(encodedParam, Encoding.ASCII);
...but I had no luck with it and the problem still remains. Any help?
After some more searching, I found out how to solve with server-side code refinement. Here's the deal:
I had to alter my .ashx handler to parse the original parameter grabbed from the query string and convert it into UTF-8. Here's how it's made:
// original parameterized value with invalid characters
string paramQs = context.Request.QueryString["param"];
// correct parsed value from query string parameter
string param = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Encoding.GetEncoding("iso8859-1").GetBytes(paramQs));
Happy coding, folks! :)