Change URL Value for RSS Feed

[Yurii Orishchuk]

Hi Eric,

Here is a solution to change service URL in accordance to selected select item:

1. Open "Storage and model" interface.

2. Add "currentRSSUrl" storage with type "string" and storage - "local storage".
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3. Add "value change" event handler for needed select. And populate it with following JS code:

   pre

   //Hardcoded value for test.
   var url = "http://cvunews.wordpress.com/?tag=nordic&feed=rss2";

   //Get url from select. Uncoment this line of code when you populated select with URL values.
   //url = jQuery(this).val();

   localStorage.setItem("currentRSSUrl", url);

   /pre

4. open your service.
   4.1. In settings tab use "{currentURL}" in URL field.
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   4.2. Navigate to request tab. Open "Query String" sub tab. And add "currentURL" parameter.
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5. Open service datasource "before send" mapping.
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6. In datasource make link from "currentRSSUrl" storage to "currentURL" request parameter.
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7. Invoke service without any parameters(like you did above) when you need.

   That's all.

   Regards.

[Eric Van Buren]

Thanks very much for the detailed response. I'm pretty sure I have everything set up correctly but it's still not working. Since the selectbox does not allow URL values, I changed the js code slightly and url value alerts correctly.

Is this the proper way to invoke the service?

var url = "https://cvunews.wordpress.com/" + jQuery(this).val() + "/feed/";

localStorage.setItem("currentRSSUrl", url);

CVUNewsService.execute();

[Yurii Orishchuk]

Hi Eric,

Please debug this implementation with console.log(); code.

For example to see what actually you have in you your URL processing you can use following JS code:

pre

var url = "https://cvunews.wordpress.com/" + jQuery(this).val() + "/feed/";

localStorage.setItem("currentRSSUrl", url);

console.log("url = " + url);

CVUNewsService.execute();

/pre

Then you can open browser debugger on network tab and take a look what URL requested with service.

Regards.

[Amelia Small]

How did you add the "URL", "Method" and "Response Data Type" fields in the appery service?