Web Service

[rotaryswing]

Hey guys,

I am needing some help setting up this Web Service to this URL:

http://www.skillu.com/web/external/demo/api_demo.htm

You can login to this website by using my MY SITES information and heading over to the Fabrik>Lists>Swing Viewer Test

You will notice my effort in trying this. I also reviewed the Web Service video multiple times, but can't figure out why it is not displaying any information.

A fix to what I messed up with definitely help me in better understanding web services with Fabrik.

Group ID, which is required is this:

3cb123d4-eb13-4bf7-bbe8-f72c096c6f25

Don't worry it is a public demo ID.

Thanks Again!

 

[rob]

hi

First off there was a small bug in the webservice plugin which mean its click event never fired, so its not suprising you weren't seeing anything. I've fixed that in github and on your site.

Then, I took a look at http://www.skillu.com/web/external/demo/api_demo.htm, but when I enter the group id i get this message:

That Group ID is invalid or the group is not API enabled. Contact support@skillu.com if you feel this is incorrect or to gain assistance.

I looked at their code examples I found I could use GROUPID=54f0249d-ab60-4bad-bfef-ad02ffc86664 which I could get to work using this url:

http://www.skillu.com/web/external/...&GROUPID=54f0249d-ab60-4bad-bfef-ad02ffc86664

So I altered your plugin credentials to use GROUPID rather than 'group_id'

But then the next issue is that they don't return a JSON string but a function which contains the json as a parameter, which really isn't what you would expect from an API, and not something we can easily resolve.

Perhaps you can ask them if there is a way to return the data without it being wrapped inside a function call?

 

[rotaryswing]

Hey Rob,

So I talked to the developer of this API today and in the future he will encode the json for normal use.. He built the current system for a clients need, and then decided to offer it this way, thus I must do it for now in Javascript, his way. Which is fine, since I am building our new site in Joomla and Fabrik and this part may be ready then, and I am also still maintaining the original website and need to build this in by hand.

Thank You for looking into it.

 

[cheesegrits]

Does that mean we don't need to do anything right now, that you will have another run at this when the developer just passes back standard JSON from the service?

Or does it mean you need help working with what the service returns right now, with the JSON wrapped in function calls? Not that I can promise we can do anything about it, but ... not sure what you are asking for at the moment.

-- hugh

 

[rotaryswing]

Nope for now don't worry about it. After I looked at his "API" i decided worst case scenario I will just re-use what I make on the old site in a custom module. thank you for the effort though, really appreciate that, great service this is.