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Send data to hello world plugin

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8 years 10 months ago #4988 by Mo3bius
Send data to hello world plugin was created by Mo3bius
Hi,

I am new to jbackend/ rest-services, so my question is probably a beginner question.

I have succesfully modified the "hello_world" plugin and installed it. I can access it via ".../jbackend/helloworld/greeting" and get the proper answer:

{"status":"ok","message":"Hello World from jBackend"}

Now i wanted to add a parameter, but here I failed. I tried several things:

- ".../jbackend/helloworld/greeting?option_name=1"
- I added it as data in the "rest easy" Firefox addon

I always get the same answer:

{"status":"ok","message":"Hello World from jBackend"}

which seems wrong, if I understand the code correctly.

Best,
Moebius

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8 years 10 months ago #4991 by admin
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Hi Moebius,
your way to add a parameter to the request is right, but now you need to change the plugin code to get the param and use it. You can see in the code itself some examples:
$action = $app->input->getString('action');

Regards,
Luigi
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8 years 9 months ago #5009 by Mo3bius
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Hi Luigi,

thank you for the reply. I just thought the example was already implemented in such a manner :), I was now able to get it to work:
	// Get the data as get/post form data
	$option_name = $app->input->getString('option_name');
// Get the input data as JSON
    $json = new JInputJSON;
    $json_data = json_decode($json->getRaw(), true);
	$option_name =  (isset($json_data)) ? @$json_data['option_name'] : 0;

Btw, what would I need the config/ field settings for? Is this just a way to save some simple data for the plugin?

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8 years 9 months ago #5015 by admin
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This is a way for the plugin to get input data from the client. As example, if the client wants a list of items but you want to support pagination, the client should specify the page and the limit too, so you can read these couple of params in this way.

Hope this is much clear now...

Kind regards,
Luigi

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8 years 9 months ago #5018 by Mo3bius
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I think it is clearer now.

Thank you.

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8 years 9 months ago #5020 by admin
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U're welcome.

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