Retry an HTTP Get if a specific value doesnt match

Ross Orr

• August 06, 2020 21:00

I have an API that I am using the HTTP Connector to generate, and then get a report. 

The flow starts by creating a POST to request the report, and in the response an ExportRequestID is received to acknolwdge a report will be generated. 

The next step is to check if the report is ready with a GET request, and from this I need to get an ExportID.. If the report is not ready, I need to wait, and then check again. The report is ready when either the ExportID is populated or a status has updated to Completed. 

I am not sure how to achieve the desired result, any suggestions would be helpful. 

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  David Gollom Strategic Partner

  • August 06, 2020 21:16

  

  

  

  

  

  Hey Ross!

  I've done some retry loops but not with same detail as you.  One idea I had was if you take your ExportRequestID and drop it into a file someplace. You would have a second second flow that exports that file and checks to see if the report is complete.  If it is great. If not, then dump that exportRequestID back into that same location again. So, you make a sort of while loop that ends by not writing the file back.

  Hope that spurs some ideas for you.  

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  Ross Orr

  • August 06, 2020 21:17

  

  

  Thats a clever idea David, I will give that a try. 

  Thanks mate

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  Courtney Jordan Experience Strategy & Design Director Community moderator

  • August 06, 2020 22:24

  

  

  

  Thanks so much for sharing that suggestion, David Gollom! Ross Orr , let us know if that doesn't work!

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  David Gollom Strategic Partner

  • August 07, 2020 15:43

  

  

  

  

  

  Let us know how it goes!!  

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