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Rob88991
Rob88991

Reputation: 153

Appcelerator - Getting geolocation information and turning into a URL

I'm still very new to appcelerator but I'm trying to do a small experiment with geolocation. I have some code similar to below, which returns the long and lat to the console. What I would like to is get the long and lat and append them to a URL, e.g http://www.mywebsite.com/lat/long.

I've tried creating a simple alert to show me the current location in the but all it says is Alert: [object GeolocationModule].

Could somebody point me in the right direction so I can learn some more? Thank you

if (Ti.Geolocation.locationServicesEnabled) {
Titanium.Geolocation.purpose = 'Get Current Location';
Titanium.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(e) {
    if (e.error) {
        Ti.API.error('Error: ' + e.error);
    } else {
        Ti.API.info(e.coords);
    }
});
} else {

    alert('Please enable location services');
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 162

Answers (1)

miga
miga

Reputation: 4055

This is how you need to follow the API documentation:

You can have a look at the LocationResults page: https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/LocationResults which leads you to LocationCoordinates: https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/LocationCoordinates

There you can see, that you can use e.coords.latitude or longitude to get the values. Or have a look at the console output. It should show you a JSON output with the key-value pairs.

Once you have the values you can create a HTTP request (demo: https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/guide/HTTPClient_and_the_Request_Lifecycle) and open your page:

var url = "https://www.appcelerator.com/"+e.coords.longitude+"/"+e.coords.latitude;
var xhr = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient({
    onload: function(e) {
        // this function is called when data is returned from the server and available for use
        // this.responseText holds the raw text return of the message (used for text/JSON)
        // this.responseXML holds any returned XML (including SOAP)
        // this.responseData holds any returned binary data
        Ti.API.debug(this.responseText);
        alert('success');
    },
    onerror: function(e) {
        // this function is called when an error occurs, including a timeout
        Ti.API.debug(e.error);
        alert('error');
    },
    timeout:5000  /* in milliseconds */
});
xhr.open("GET", url);
xhr.send();  // request is actually sent with this statement

or if you plan to use more request have a look at RESTe (https://github.com/jasonkneen/RESTe) which is an awesome library that makes it easy to create API requests

Upvotes: 2

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