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jasperpVisitor
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Load CSV Data from API

I have an API that requires an access token to be retrieved using a POST request, which is returned as JSON. Most of the endpoints also return the data in JSON, which I can already extract using custom rsd files. However, there is one endpoint that returns custom reports in text/CSV format. So I'm looking for a way to retrieve the token from a JSON response and use it to do a second request to retrieve a CSV response.I've tried using the CSV provider to do this, but I get an error when I want to combine jsonproviderGet and csvproviderGet in a nested call using an rsd file based on my already working all-json rsd file: Is there a way to make this work? Thanks,Jasper 

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
2 days ago
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RLBParticipant
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Nested API calls maxes out?

Hi,As mentioned here https://support.timextender.com/data-sources-112/advanced-rsd-file-options-884?postid=7688#post7688 I'm having some issues with nested API calls using the CData REST provider. It looks like it maxes out at 1,000 calls per iteration. Is this the expected behaviour or is there a setting I haven't found?Thanks!

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
2 days ago
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cmynhardtVisitor
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TimeXtender REST API Dynamic Endpoint

I am connection to a REST API with multiple Endpoints. Does anyone have experience with setting up a control table for TimeXtender to use to dynamically change the endpoints instead of creating an endpoint per table?

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
2 days ago
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BennyExplorer
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How to configure an REST API endpoint with this kind of authorization?

The below image is the documentation for my endpoint. I can't get this to work. When I configure this in the portal I get back a 415 error. Any general guidelines on how to configure this? Update 2024-07-22The regular way:I’ve been doing some additional testing. Here's a more detailed description of my findings/problems. The API wants to receive a JSON body like so:{ "grant_type": "authorization_code", "code": "abc***123"}I tried to add fill out the portal like this:This doesn't work and returns the 415 error.What should I fill out in stead? My cicumvention (doesn't suffice). I configure one endpoint (access_token) to be a POST request (the request that will give back my bearer token). I then configure a second endpoint (Products) and use a dynamic value based on access_token and use it in the header Authorization. See images below.A POST request that will return my bearer token.A GET request that uses the bearer token value returned by the previous endpoint.This method does “wor

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
4 days ago
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r.brummansStarter
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Authorization with bearer token and json body

I am getting a bearer token when i am running the json code below with the specified url, but i don`t know how to implement this json body in TimeXtender, is there any documentation available or a solution for this? {   "id": "",   "language": "en",   "data": {     "resourceType": "AUTH",     "item": {           "loginName": "api@user",            "password": "password",           "module": "API"     }   } }

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R
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9 days ago
Paul McLeod Bespoke Analytics
TimeXtender Xpert
Paul McLeod Bespoke AnalyticsTimeXtender Xpert
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TimeXtender Rest Datasource with OAUTH2 Generated Bearer Token

I am having issues getting the new ODX TimeXtender Rest API to connect using OAuth2 and an authentication service to generate an expiring bearer token.I have been able to generate a token successfully using Postman, and I have been able to configure the standard ODX CData Rest datasource successfully with the authentication service. But using the same setup I am getting errors on the TimeXtender Rest service.This is the OAuth2 settings from the standard Rest Data SourceCData Rest OAuth settings that workThis is the OAuth settings from the new TimeXtender Rest datasource that don’t work.TimeXtender Rest APIThe only thing potentially unusual was that when setting up my postman request to generate the Bearer Toekn the connection instructions specifically stated to setup the body as follows:Postman However I did not have to set the encoding in the standard CData Rest.I did try generating the bearer token in postman and then using that as a not expiring Bearer token to verify my core URL an

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
23 days ago
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jacqueline.hofmeijerContributor
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Field with Integer Datatype not valid in RestAPI

Hi all,I am using a Cdata Restapi to connect to a datasource, and it has been working fine up to now.It seems they have changed one of the fields, used for incremental loading, and this has now become too long to fit in a integer data type. I have had contact with the support team of the datasource and it seems the field had always been setup as a int64 field (not documented very well), but the value wasn't that big in the past. Now I get errors when retrieving data , stating that the field is too small. How can I adjust the field definition in TX so that it is a bigint field instead of int32? I tried with override datatype, but initially it still wants to load the data in int32.Using the TX 20.10 version, with business units and a cdata restapi connection. Has anyone experience with this? Kind regards,Jacqueline

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25 days ago
rory.smith
TimeXtender Xpert
rory.smithTimeXtender Xpert
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Get value of parent node instead of expanding to children

I am trying to achieve something complex in the TX REST connector using table flattening.I have the following JSON response: [    {        "id": 1,        "submitted": "2024-06-26T12:11:42+02:00",        "answers": [            {                "question": {                    "id": 3,                    "label": "How do you evaluate this?",                    "type": "SINGLE"                },                "answer": 9            },            {                "question": {                    "id": 4,                    "label": "How do you rate the following elements?",                    "type": "MATRIX_SINGLE_CHOICE"                },                "answer": [                    {                        "ids": [                            55                        ],                        "labels": [                            "Drinks"                        ],                        "value": [                            "Good"                        ]                    },     

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rory.smith
TimeXtender Xpert
1 month ago
rory.smith
TimeXtender Xpert
rory.smithTimeXtender Xpert
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Documentation for TimeXtender REST connector options/variables

In many of the tutorials for dealing with specific types of APIs reference is made to internal variables like {TX_CurrentPage} and others that can be leveraged to implement things like pagination. As far as I can find there does not seem to be a list of such items and what they do. Could this be made available? 

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andrew.gebhard
Participant
2 months ago
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dennishanssenStarter
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InfluxDB POST

I'm trying to connect to an InfluxDB source, where a POST request is expected, including flux script in the body to filter data. The output is in CSV format. I have this working in Postman, but how should I configure this in TimeXtender? Anything I try results in the error below, which also means no RSD is generated.[500] Could not execute the specified command: HTTP protocol error. 405 Method Not Allowed

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
3 months ago
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jorisdlStarter
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Pagination TimeXtender REST Data Source (5.0)

Hi,I'm using the TimeXtender REST Data Source (5.0) and trying to set up pagination.Right now the relevant table from the data source contains 3999 rows.However the table should contain 4092 rows.In the API documentation I couldn't find a XPath or a header containing a link to the next page.Could someone help me with configuring the pagination in the portal. (maybe by looping over the max row count) Thank you. 

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andrew.gebhard
Participant
3 months ago
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dpjatExplorer
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oauth 1.0 restlet

Hi all, I have an api which is connecting to a restlet endpoint. trying to get this in timextender but I'm getting errors all the time. to set this up in Postman I have added a screenshot of the values i'm adding to my call, which is then added as a header to the call (see header png).Transferring this to TX gives me a 403 forbidden. I'm thinking this is because of encoding or the HMAC signing. But I have tried a lot of things but not getting the call through. Any suggestions as to how I can add a restlet with Oauth1.0? If more information is needed please let me know   

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D
Explorer
4 months ago
sierd.zuiderveld
Contributor
sierd.zuiderveldContributor
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Client certificate in REST request

Hey, I have a question about our REST API. We need to implement client certificates, similar to here in Postman: Is this possible with the new REST provider? If not, what are the steps to do it with the old one?

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K
Contributor
5 months ago
A
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andreas.skagestad
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REST connection with JSONROWS - Columns and rows within same array

Hi,I am trying to parse a response using the REST connector from an API which returns a JSONROWS-format where the first row contains the name of the columns, while the following rows contain the values.The response is on the form:{ "response":[ [ {"name":"test1"}, {"name":"test2"} ], [ 1, 2 ], [ 3, 4 ], [ 5, 6 ] ]}I have tried several different xPath-configurations. The following gives the correct columns, but returns zero rows:xPath:        column:/response;columnname:/response.name;row:/responseI was hoping that at least this would have parsed all the values as strings with the first row containing the {“name”:”testN”} in the corresponding columns.How do I work with this response?

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
8 months ago
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dpjatExplorer
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Help with REST API based on table

Hi everyone, I’ve been searching but haven’t been able to find in previous threads. For an API i'm trying to extract to TX, i'm running into some issues. The API extracts some geographical building data, based on an ID. I have these ID's from a seperate source already in the warehouse.What I want to do is get the ID from the ODX-table and for each ID run a call to the API. I'm new to this scripting language and maybe im overlooking it in existing documentation but for me it seems impossible. Any idea's and suggestions would be welcome, thanks!

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
8 months ago
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Niek.GuijtStarter
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Rest API rate limit

Hi,I'm currently connecting to a new api.https://ads-api.autotelex.com/swagger/index.html?urls.primaryName=Autotelex%20%7C%20Advertisement%20API%20V2%20(Beta)In my RSD file I call /api/v2/stock to get the ids for a stock, then I call /api/v2/stock/{adsStockId}/summary using the ids from the first call.The problem I run in to is that i can only make 300 calls per minute for the second call. Whenever I run into this limit my execute fails with the message: "Too many requests".Is there any way to limit or reduce the amount of calls I make per minute?Kind regards,Niek

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J
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9 months ago
J
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jacqueline.hofmeijerContributor
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Use variables on Query tables

Hi,I have a project that is using the cdata connector as a datasource, and because of issues with paging and nested call we have created query tables to get the correct results (using queryslicer in the rsd-files).Because of performance issues the tables have to be setup for incremental loading, but I cannot get this working because I need the incremental value in the call.Is it somehow possible to use a variable or a field from another table in the Quey tables to get the incremental value?When using a fixed date the logic is working fine (as shown below) but that's not workable:    SELECT *     FROM [REST].[EventRegistration_Detail]      WHERE [file_name] IN         (SELECT [Name]          FROM [REST].[EventRegistration_List]         WHERE [Properties.Last-Modified] > '2023-01-01')  (using TX 20.10.30.64 with Business Units) Any good suggestions on this? Kind regards,Jacqueline

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
9 months ago
erik.van.mastrigt
TimeXtender Xpert
erik.van.mastrigtTimeXtender Xpert
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CData REST API connector loads incomplete data when paging is used

Issue: tables with paging stop loading while data is still incompleteWe have an execution package with loads data from AFAS GetConnectors. There are 7 Business Units in TX, each loading data from a separate AFAS implementation.  Per implementation AFAS supports up to 20 parallel connections. From this perspective the Max. Threads 10 should not be a problem.AFAS uses paging with record offset for tables that are too big to load. All Business Units have a similar set of tables. I’ll use AfasIncluzio as an example, as this one has the most data.This table is currently the only one loaded with pagingTX_Financiele_MutatiesWhen we look at the execution log on package level, we can see that the Total Time varies per day:  The AFAS API is quite stable in terms of speed. Hence I can tell that all executions under 15 minutes did not load all data. Further investigation learned that this only happens on table Tx_Financiele_Mutaties, which is currently the only one with paging.This is the Executio

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erik.van.mastrigt
TimeXtender Xpert
9 months ago
Niels Jonker
Contributor
Niels JonkerContributor
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RSD pagination with incrementing value

Hey community,I am trying to set up pagination for my REST connector to ADP. I need to use the CData parameters $skip & $top.My first call should be: https://api.eu.adp.com/hr/v2/workers?$skip=0&$top=100Then I need to increment the $skip parameter by 100 so the next call would be: https://api.eu.adp.com/hr/v2/workers?$skip=100&$top=100In need to end when I receive an empty response. Anyone that has experience with this?

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Matt Thomas
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1 year ago
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pontus.berglundContributor
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Connecting to App Store Connect API

Hi,My client wants to connect to the App Store Connect API (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi) but we are having trouble with getting the authorization to work.Calls to the API require JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authorization, specifically using the “ES256” signature algorithm. We tried using the CData Rest connector but found in the documentation that “...the JWT signature algorithm cannot be set directly. Only the RS256 algorithm is supported”  https://cdn.cdata.com/help/DWH/ado/pg_oauth.htm#jwtHas anyone experience connecting to the App Store Connect API?

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
1 year ago
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JeroenSParticipant
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Nested calls with POST API

We are struggling with nested calls in a POST API with custom body. We don't change the URI on every input, but need to change the body on every request:We use Cursor based pagination using rows@next for pagination. And as it seems you can only use one pagination per rsd, we can only get one iteration using nested calls.Query slicers only seem to be able to slice URI's (https://cdn.cdata.com/help/DWG/jdbc/pg_queryslicer.htm). In our example, we are extracting ReservationId's from a Reservation request and need them as a body input for ReservationItems in batches of 1000.Any help would be appreciated, let me know if you need anymore information.

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
1 year ago
erik.van.mastrigt
TimeXtender Xpert
erik.van.mastrigtTimeXtender Xpert
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CData REST API connector hangs when loading large datasets

We’re facing issues with CData REST API connector when requesting an API for a large dataset. TX sends the request, but seems to never receive a response. The execution fails when it hits the timeout limit (currently set to 3600 seconds).In the logs (verbosity 4) I see that nothing happens between the time that the request was sent and the moment of timeout. I put the same URI, headers and parameters in Azure Data Factory. After 9 minutes it receives a response of 204MB and 176K rows. In Postman, I received a response after 8 minutes. While I agree that it might be better to somehow make smaller API request. In fact, when I limit the date range to only this year, TX gets a response in about a minute. However, I still expect TX/CData to finish the request when the dataset is larger and it takes more time before the response is generated by the server.Due to NDAs I cannot post logs, RSDs or credentials here, but I’ll send some additional files via email.Tx version 20.10.39CData REST API

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Christian Hauggaard
Community Manager
1 year ago
J
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JeroenSParticipant
asked in REST APIs

POST request body REST connection

We have an API in which we have to pass a POST request with a request body to obtain the data. In Qlik Sense and Postman we have a basic connection established. However, there you can easily specify that the call should be a POST and you can also easily fetch the request body. In the CDATA REST connector in TX, we do not know where to fetch this request body in the connection. The demo endpoint we are trying to connect is:https://api.mews-demo.com/api/connector/v1/configuration/getwith the request body:{"ClientToken": "E0D439EE522F44368DC78E1BFB03710C-D24FB11DBE31D4621C4817E028D9E1D","AccessToken": "7059D2C25BF64EA681ACAB3A00B859CC-D91BFF2B1E3047A3E0DEC1D57BE1382","Client": "NameOfYourCompanyOrApplication"}Any help would be appreciated.

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
1 year ago
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Contributor
ebayContributor
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nested API pagination problem

Hello,To implement pagination in the API endpoint "https://domainname/api/v2/search/tickets?updated_since=2023-01-01T02:00:00Z&page{}", you need to provide the page parameter in a nested format. I prepared a custom RSD file specific to this API after reading the "Nested parameter" article. I have created a loop starting from 1 in the given code.  However, I'm not able to see any data. I'm not receiving any errors during the transfer and synchronization processes. You can find the RSD file attached.I would appreciate in resolving this issue.Best Regards

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
1 year ago
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nohikhStarter
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Setting up post curl in "script action"

Hi TimeXtenderI have an urgent request (!)I am trying to set up a Script action (which I will later use in a table as a post-script) that executes a POST CURL in a different tool.I have tried to execute the POST CURL in Postman and it is working.Now I want to do the same from TimeXtender.I have an URL and a Token.How can I set it up? Looking forward to hearing from you.Ismail

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Thomas Lind
Community Manager
1 year ago

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