Making HTTPS requests is very important for the application. I never work with NodeJS before this experience with Alexa: call an API on Azure from Alexa Developer Console with nodejs editor on the portal and get the JSON result. In this post, you can read how to perform a GET Request with my ‘function httpGet’ (async/await) ⬇️
https.request
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| var https = require('https');
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function httpGet
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| function httpGet(typeOfFilter) {
return new Promise(((resolve, reject) => {
var options = {
host: '00000000000000000000000000000000.azurewebsites.net',
port: 443,
path: '/api/BlaBlaBla?type=' + typeOfFilter ,
method: 'GET'
};
const request = https.request(options, (response) => {
response.setEncoding('utf8');
let returnData = '';
response.on('data', (chunk) => {
returnData += chunk;
});
response.on('end', () => {
resolve(JSON.parse(returnData));
});
response.on('error', (error) => {
throw error;
});
});
request.end();
}));
}
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https.request - get result
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| response.on('data', (chunk) => {
returnData += chunk;
});
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https.request - parse json and return
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| response.on('end', () => {
resolve(JSON.parse(returnData));
});
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function httpGet: how to call?
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| [...]
async handle(handlerInput) {
const response = await httpGet('01');
},
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