Externalize Configuration of REST Inteface

admin1 · February 22, 2016, 3:18pm

What are the best practices to avoid hardcoding the URL/endpoint for a REST interface asset?

Seb · March 2, 2016, 6:07pm

Hi Justin,

At the moment, the endpoint has to be hardcoded into the .ifd file describing to Composer where the webserice is located.
The only thing you can make dynamic would be the “method” path, where you can use a parameter in the path itself, but it won’t change the server URL.

mdias · February 6, 2020, 9:50am

Hi @Seb ,

This still the same nowadays?

Thanks

Seb · February 6, 2020, 5:13pm

Hi @mdias,

You can set the host as a parameter in the request itself, using this syntax: {host:www.intuiface.com}, where

host is the parameter name
www.intuiface.com is the default value

mdias · February 6, 2020, 7:30pm

Hi @Seb,
sounded to good to be true

Works fine without body parameter, when I try to add body type parameter it has a strange behavior.

Thanks
Mdias!

Seb · February 7, 2020, 3:02pm

You should contact our support team to discuss the topic with the team there.
If the API Explorer can’t handle this, yet, and until it’s fixed, you can probably still use the manual way to create your ifd.