Arbortext Editor: calling a web service via web request

hbestler — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:41:08 GMT

Hi together,

we would like to call a web request from ACL and also we will get a response string from this web request.

Do you know an opportunity to do that? With javascript, vbscript maybe?

Unfortunately we have no experience with that.

Greetings from germany

Re: Arbortext Editor: calling a web service via web request

GarethOakes — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:20:08 GMT

We would use Java for this.

Alternatives are Jscript/VBscript using MSXML APIs e.g. https://helloacm.com/using-xmlhttp-in-vbscript/

If you wish to use Javascript then you must realise it is the Rhino Java engine. Therefore, you must still call into Java e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22157910/using-rhino-js-engine-to-make-http-requests

The ACL code itself does not natively support HTTP to the best of my knowledge (would love to be proven wrong!).