What is the best way to create a dynamic request URL for the REST Connector in CloudConnect?
e.g. I want the URL to be for example www.myservice.com/api/{todays-date}/report.json and the URL must change accordingly everytime the ETL runs.
Is there some way to make this happen by code in CloudConnect? I didn't find any straight forward way but I found that one might be able to import a remote file containing the URL.
Does anyone have experience or tips on this subject?
what should work the best is to generate this parameter (e.g. in Data Generator) or read some data from the source (e.g. list of IDs) and send it to the REST component as an input parameter (e.g. metadata field name is 'today_date', so use ${today_date}). As far as I know this should work.
Another option is to use a parameter from a *.prm file (like workspace.prm). You can use ${PARAMETER_NAME} in your URL and this should also work correctly.
Hope this helps.
Radek
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I'm having real trouble getting Informatica PowerCenter or Developer to call a URI based REST API and I'm doing it for something simple (JIRA's API). Basically I want to call JIRA's worklog REST API which is a different URL for a list of issue ids and write it to our DB.
https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/6.2/
/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/worklog
Informatica PowerCenter supports only HTTP transformation which is only a simple GET. Unfortunately the latest version is still stuck in the 'old' query type URL building where they append inputs into search strings. E.g. if I have a "key" input field with value "ABC-1" and the URL is jira/rest/api/2/search it would actually build the URL on the fly into jira/rest/api/2/search?key=ABC-1. While some of JIRA's API works this way, some use the URI way e.g. jira/rest/api/2/ABC-1/worklog which requires embedding the value into the URI. There's no way I can get this to work :-
if I do jira/rest/api/$key/worklog it still converts the URI into jira/rest/api/$key/worklog/?key=ABC-1 so $key does not get replaced
even if i pre-build the URI outside the mapping it's not feasible as the URI needs to be dynamic to the list of JIRA keys and anyway because it appends ? at the end JIRA throws an error (because ? is a reserved key word for this API)
HTTP transformation does not support NTLMv2 authentication which our company's JIRA instance may upgrade to shortly
Last resort is to use a Java transformation in which Informatica has quite little value add. This also means I need to somehow pass in the JIRA user password for authentication which is a separate challenge (versus just storing as a HTTP connection)
Informatica Developer supports REST Web Consumer Transformation but has similar limitations with only building query type URL. Even worse I can't even dynamically build the URL since it's fixed to the HTTP connection object URL.
Am I straight outta luck?
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Is there any way to make the standart PrestaShop's Layered filters module to use URL parameters instead of anchors (the part after hash)?
I ment that I want the layered filter generate and accept the URLs like this (or maybe somehow diferrent, but the key is to use parameters and not to use hashes):
my-example-shop.ru/some-category/?color=red&size=xl
instead of this:
my-example-shop.ru/some-category#/color-red/size-xl
The reason is that the most of advertisment systems could add some parameters to the URL, but they usuaul add it directly to the end of the URL, and dont trying to analyze url structure and insert parameters to the right place.
So, as far as i see, the obvious solution is to avoid using hashes in url, using just query parameters, and to use history.pushState to change URL without refreshing whole page...
It seems obvious, usable, but I cant find any ready-to-use solution that do this such way, and I cant find even information about how does someone did it..
So the questions are:
is there any ready-to-use solution?
is there any described way to reach this by myself?
Thanks in advance.
UPD
All I found by myself for now is that such URLs could be accepted:
my-example-shop.ru/some-category/color-red/size-xl
my-example-shop.ru/some-category?selected_filters=/color-red/size-xl
BUT any filters changing causes using hashes again (afaik, hashed filters values overrides values passed via selected_filters parameter, so subsequent navigation just ignores selected_filters). In other words - I just can clear the entry URL, BUT I couldnt make URLs to be clean for subsequent navigation.
The change is very large.
You should create the override classes/Dispatcher.php
For filters instead you should edit the file: blocklayered/blocklayered.php
find function: getSelectedFilters()
Inside are two foreach, you should withdraw from the url "featured" fields that you need and compile the new array "$selected_filters"
Our product (Yoke.io) integrates Evernote through REST API. We need to generate direct URL link to a specific notebook, note or tag so that user can click the link to access them.
However, current URL format contains parameters named "ses", "sh" and "sds" in addition to the ids for notebook/note/tag. I have no idea what these parameters mean and if they are different for different users, platforms, etc.
For example, if I want to access a notebook with id "3ec5f3c1-bd4d-4f94-b924-367b13eaf3bc", and generate the following links:
https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#b=3ec5f3c1-bd4d-4f94-b924-367b13eaf3bc
https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#b=3ec5f3c1-bd4d-4f94-b924-367b13eaf3bc&ses=4&sh=1&sds=5&
The first link (#1) won't work but the second link (#2) works.
I could hard-code "ses", "sh" and "sds" parameters in the URL but my feelings is that these parameters will change for different users.
Could anyone explain more on what are these parameters for and how I can generate a direct URL link to a specific Evernote notebook/note/tag?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Regards,
Tao
ses, sh and sds are hash parameters we use when serializing the state of the web client. If you try manipulating the hash parameters to get the web client into a certain state, note that these are undocumented APIs and are subject to change at any time. That said, they won't change super often.
None of those three parameters will change on a per-user basis, they represent the "view" of the client you're in at the time. The simplest way to get a url in the format you like is to navigate to that view in the web client, copy the hash, and replace note and/or notebook guids in the url (b for the notebook guid and n for the note guid).
I've been using Fiddler tool to capture the HTTP request-responses, then manually finding out the source location of a dynamic token (in a recorded page). I'd then use regular expression extractor on that source page to extract and store the value of that dynamic token in a variable, and use that variable in later pages.
Just wondering if there's an easier way for this. Is there any tool in JMeter that can help us find the source location of a dynamic token?
Thank you,
--Ishti
As of may 2015, there's nothing available OOTB except to save request / responses to file with ViewResultsTree and search in resulting file, or search in each response in ViewResultsTree gui.
An option would be to write a BackendListenerClient implementation that writes data in jdbc or ElasticSearch instance and uses it to search through SQL or elastic search queries.
A contribution would be welcome.
It is possible that this is implemented in future releases.
I need to fetch company addresses(cim) from site http://www.ceginfo.hu/
Example Company Name: AB-KONTÍR Szolgáltató Bt.
I know how to do it using WinHttp.WinHttpRequest object and FireBug.
But I am not able to decide to which URL I should send this request.
When I analyse the request/responses using FireBug, I get the following URL:
http://www.ceginfo.hu/company/search/4221638
4221638 is CompanyID here I think. But in my case I will have company name only and that's what my problem is.
So can anybody please tell me where can I get URL using firebug or any other tool using which I can track the URL with Company Name as parameter which I can use in my VBA code.
Thanks in advance!
So can anybody please tell me where can I get URL using firebug or any
other tool using which I can track the URL with Company Name as
parameter which I can use in my VBA code.
No. Unless there is a publicly available database (I would suggest calling them, if you can) or an API that allows for programmatic access, the only way to arrive at this link slug is by executing the search.
Further, the post slog is not as relevant as you think. If you search for simply "Kontir", this is the resulting page -- with many results:
http://www.ceginfo.hu/company/search/4222407
You're going to have to automate the "search" -- passing the criteria to the Web Page and executing the button-click and/or HTTPPost, and then parse the result(s). In the example company name, there is only one result. But it is possible as in my example above, that there may be multiple matches for some queries, and then you will need to have a method of dealing with these, or ignoring them.