How to consume System Center Orchestrator services from Windows 8.1 app with HTML5/Javascript ?

Question

Hi,

I'm currently developping a Windows 8.1 app using HTML/Javascript but i don't know how to consume Orcehstrator web services using Javascript (or jQuery).

I've found the C# sample but there is no indication about consuming theses REST based XML services with authentication and GET/PUT methods.

Does anyone have an idea about that ?

I'm pretty new to Windows Store apps developpment, Javascript and it will help me a lot if i could get a sample code or some explanations.

Regards,

Answer 1

It's JavaScript, so the calls are the same whether it's in Windows Store or IE. Knowing that, I found this link for general knowledge of consuming RESTful webservices with JavaScript:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brunoterkaly/archive/2011/11/17/how-to-consume-restful-services-using-jquery-and-or-javascript.aspx

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Answer 2

Thank you Matt, here is what i did :

$.ajax({ type: "POST",
            url: http://myserver:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc/Jobs,
            data: '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><entry xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><content type="application/xml"><m:properties><d:RunbookId m:type="Edm.Guid">myRunbookID</d:RunbookId><d:Parameters>&lt;Data&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{myParam1ID}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;myParam1Value&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{myParam2ID}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;myParam2Value&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;/Data&gt;</d:Parameters></m:properties></content></entry>',
            contentType: "text/xml",
            dataType: "xml",
            cache: false,
            success: function (xml) {

                // Displaying toast notification
                sendSuccessToast();
            },
            error: function (xml) {
                
// Displaying toast notification
                sendErrorToast();

                    }});

With this code i am able to contact my server myServer because it's asking to provide credentials. But when providing theses credentials, i get the sendErrorToast notification. I think that the communication process is not complete and not correct.

How can i resolve this problem ? Does anyone have an idea of what i'm doing wrong ?

Answer 3

Here is what i did :

var orchURL = 'http://myserver:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc/Jobs';
    var restPostMessage = '<entry xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" \
        xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" \
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> \
        <content type="application/xml"> \
        <m:properties> \
        <d:RunbookId m:type="Edm.Guid">' + runbookId + '</d:RunbookId> \
        <d:Parameters>&lt;Data&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{' + idParameter1 + '}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;' + valueParameter1 + '&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{' + idParameter2 + '}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;' + valueParameter2 + '&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;/Data&gt;</d:Parameters> \
        </m:properties> \
        </content> \
        </entry>';

        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: orchURL,
            data: restPostMessage,
            contentType: "application/atom+xml; charset=\"utf-8\"",
            dataType: "xml",
            success: function (xml) {
                myfunction("success");
            },
            error: function (xml) {
                myfunction("error");
            }
        });

It works fine.