🚀 API Maker - Call external APIs
API Maker®
Posted on October 18, 2023
⭐ List of Feature ⭐
✅ Why external API ?
▸ They allow information or functionality to be transferred and exchanged among different applications.
✅ Use external API ?
▸ This gives businesses the opportunity to leverage another business's data, code, software, or services to improve their own products — and reduce time and cost.
✅ Supported HTTP request method
▸ GET| HEAD| POST| PUT| DELETE| CONNECT| OPTIONS| TRACE| PATCH
✅ Below are the Supported Fields
{
"url": "full_url_here",
"method": "POST",
"timeout": 5000,
"body": {
"first_name": "James",
"last_name": "Bond"
},
"queryParams": {
"select": "first_name"
},
"headers": {
"x-am-meta": true
},
"id": "saveCountryId",
"preProcess": [
{
"from": "saveCountryId.output.id",
"to": "body.orderId"
}
],
"postProcess": [
{
"from": "saveCountryId.output.id",
"to": "body.orderId"
}
],
"output": "any"
}
✅ Easy to use API Maker call external API
▸ There is no need to host any function or set a function as a web-hook etc.
✅ Two types of support
▸ Parallel : APIs are executed in parallel.
await g.sys.system.callExternalApi([
{
url: "FULL_URL",
method: "POST",
body: [
{
first_name: "James",
last_name: "Bond"
}
],
id: "saveApi",
postProcess: [
{
from: "saveApi.output.data.first_name",
to: "setApi.body.first_name"
}
],
queryParams: {
deep: JSON.stringify([{
s_key: "SOURCE_COLLECTION_COLUMN_NAME",
t_key: "TARGET_COLLECTION_COLUMN_NAME",
t_col: "TARGET_COLLECTION_NAME",
select: "COLUMN_NAMES"
}]),
select: "COLUMN_NAMES",
limit: 2,
sort: "COLUMN_NAMES"
},
timeout: 1000,
headers: { "x-am-authorization": "TOKEN" },
},
{
type: 'parallel',
data: [
{
url: "FULL_URL",
method: 'PUT',
body: {},
id: "setApi",
headers: { "x-am-authorization": "TOKEN" }
},
{
url: "FULL_URL",
method: 'GET',
headers: { "x-am-authorization": "TOKEN" }
}
]
}
]);
▸ Sequential : APIs are executed in sequential.
await g.sys.system.callExternalApi([
{
url: "your_url",
method: "GET",
timeout: 5000,
queryParams: { "select": "first_name" },
headers: { "x-am-meta": true },
id: "getData",
output: "any"
},
{
type: "sequential",
data: [
{
url: "your_url",
method: "POST",
body: {},
id: "addData",
preProcess: [
{
from: "getData.output.data",
to: "addData.body"
}
],
headers: { "x-am-authorization": "TOKEN", "x-am-response-case": "capitalCase" }
},
{
url: "your_url",
method: "GET",
headers: { "x-am-response-case": "capitalCase" }
}
]
}
]);
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Posted on October 18, 2023
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