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MisterniceGuy
MisterniceGuy

Reputation: 1786

How can I store and return data from an HTTP response?

I am using the request module to make a request to an API which sends me a Base64 encoded response which is a file.

    app.get("/report", async(request, response) => {
    const newRequest = new mdl.Request
    const newDatasources = new  mdl.Datasources
    const newVariables = new mdl.VariablesType
    const VariablesArray = []
    const myArray = []

    newRequest.Uri = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/listing.docx"
 newRequest.Async = false
    newRequest.OutputFormat = "html"
    newVariables.Name = "Var1"
    newVariables.Type = "text"
    newVariables.Value = "Hello World!"
    VariablesArray.push(newVariables)
    newDatasources.Name = "JSON"
    newDatasources.Type = "JSON"
    newDatasources.Data = "ewogICAgImxpc3RQcmljZSI6ICIkODc5LDAwMCIsCiAAgICAgInB1cmNoQ29udHJhY3REYXRlIjogIiIsCiAgICAgICAgImVuZGluZ0RhdGUiOiAiIgogICAgfQp9"
    newDatasources.Variables = VariablesArray
    myArray.push(newDatasources)

    newRequest.Datasources = myArray

    const req_data = JSON.stringify(newRequest)

    const options = {
        hostname: 'report.sample.com',
        port: 80,
        path: '/v1/reports',
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
          'Content-Length': req_data.length
        }
      }
      const req = http.request(options, (error, resp, body) => {
        console.log(`statusCode: ${res.statusCode}`)

        resp.on('data', (d) => {
          process.stdout.write(d)
        })
      })

      resp.on('error', (error) => {
        console.error(error)
      })

      req.write(req_data)

      req.end()

      response.send("done")
    });

This prints out the received data on my terminal, but how can I go about storing it in a variable and return it as a response to a request? just some background to what i am doing. I am building a report request which is then send to a api via the request which returns me the data in form of the encoded string

Upvotes: 2

Views: 827

Answers (1)

Zachary Brooks
Zachary Brooks

Reputation: 300

It's difficult to tell exactly what you're using to run this.

Use

res.status(200).send({success: true, data: data})

if you're using express.

Upvotes: 1

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