Utility HTTP

[MayankGoyal2]

Hi, With current version of Utility HTTP, we get response body. Is there a reusable VBO in BP to return back response headers and response code as well along with body?

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Mayank Goyal
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[ewilson]

Hi @Mayank Goyal,

The version of the HTTP VBO I have includes the response headers in the output of the actions. What version of Blue Prism are you running?

Cheers,
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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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[MayankGoyal2]

@ewilson - Kindly share the link for the same. Might be possible I have older version of VBO. Does that include response code as well?
Also I have seen when API end point is not reachable from blue prism, it gives some code stage error of object not referenced, ideally there should be a more specific errors from VBO code code stage for various exception scenarios possible when calling an API. Can you ask someone from your engineering team to work a bit on it and have a new version of it released on DX portal that we can download. ​

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Mayank Goyal
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[ewilson]

The current VBO is available on the DX. It does not include a separate output parameter for the HTTP response code, but we can look at getting that added.

We'll look into the exception messaging.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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[ewilson]

@Mayank Goyal,

I just uploaded v3 of the HTTP utility VBO. It now includes an output parameter called "Status Code" that contains the numeric HTTP status code associated with a request.

Cheers,
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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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[MayankGoyal2]

@ewilson - Thanks a lot for your quick response as always, very helpful. I will try this.  ​Meanwhile want to check if you were able to handle the exception in a better way when API end point is not reachable from BP machine so that we get a more specific message. Its very tough to understand the issue from code stage when it gives general object related error message

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Mayank Goyal
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[ewilson]

@Mayank Goyal  we still need to review the exception handling. I just implemented the status code as it was a quick change over lunch. 😁​

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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[MayankGoyal2]

@ewilson - lot of times we face issues when API works smooth and quick with postman passing simple headers and body. However when we call it from blue prism http we get errors. The exact cause of error will help a lot applying fix accordingly. ​

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Mayank Goyal
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[MayankGoyal2]

@ewilson - We are facing similar issue with one API - https://community.blueprism.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=97&MessageKey=c063f3cb-79a1-4563-a789-df844da37c17&CommunityKey=3b501789-976c-4cfa-b9db-88307c6a0a86&tab=dige...

It works from postman because I can change the settings quickly on postman UI, however not sure how to make this work in code stage of BP HTTP VBO? ​

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Mayank Goyal
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[ewilson]

@Mayank Goyal - Just uploaded v3.1 of the VBO. This has improved exception messaging. If an exception is encountered when trying to reach a site you should receive the actual exception message and associated HTTP status code (ex. 404) depending on what caused the exception. Previously, the object error you were seeing was due to the way the code was assuming that a WebResponse object would be included in the WebException object. That's not always the case.

Cheers,
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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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