Common Properties (REST)

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Service URL (Accepts MScript)

URL which hosts the Rest Web  Service

Request Parameters (Accepts MScript)

Parameters of the web service request.

Method (Accepts MScript)

Method of the REST web service; the value may be “Post” or “Get”.

Replace (Accepts MScript)

In some cases it is desirable to manipulate the REST Web Service response received from the web service. In this property one or more replace definition can be made. The definitions should be separated with "|::|" characters from each other.

Syntax of a replace definition:

text-to-change[|:|new-text ]

The text-to-change and new-text should be delimited with "|:|" characters. If new-text is omitted then the occurrences of text-to-change are removed from the output.

Note that extra space characters should be avoided between the delimiter and the texts.

Target Symbol (Accepts MScript)

The name of the target symbol that will contain the response from the service request.

Authentication Type

It is the authentication type which will be used to access Rest Web Service. Values may be “Basic” or “OAuth”

Basic Authentication

Username (Accepts MScript)

Username. It will be considered if the authentication type is “Basic”.

Password (Accepts MScript)

Password fort he username. It will be considered if the authentication type is “Basic”.

OAuth Authentication

Verifier Key (Accepts MScript)

This key is provided by the service provider. This value is specific fort he recent application and user (see OAuthVerifierKeyProcess). It will be considered if the authentication type is “OAuth”.

Unique ID (Accepts MScript)

This ID establishes connection with RestProcess or RestQueryDataSource. This way, RestProcess or RestQueryDataSource can access to configration values.

Allow Re-Authentication (Accepts MScript)

Values may be “true” or “false”. If the value is “false”; the user can run the process again with the same “Verifier Key”. Otherwise the user should take a new “Verifier Key” from the beginning.