Getting the Status from a REST call
Hi Folks,
I’m having trouble getting a proper handling from Snaplogic on a REST call.
So the rest call will return on success:
“entity”:
{
“MessageId”:“0101017165ec422f-dfa2bb38-faac-4c48-bcd7-0e2869d80fb6-000000”, …}
And on Error:
“entity”: "ERROR: An error occurred …
Thing is these are different - one is a dictionary and the other a string. So it fails badly when I check for entity error.
Is there a standard pattern for this?
Thanks,
Tim
Another option is to use the
matchesoperator that can check a value against a pattern. The nice thing about this approach is that the pattern looks roughly like the value being matched and the type of the value is implicitly checked. So, an error won’t be raised if the value has an unexpected type.For your first example:
The object pattern,
{ MessageId }, would only match objects that contain the propertyMessageId. The full expression would look like this:$entity matches { MessageId }For the second example:
A string pattern that uses the
...wildcard can check for a value with a prefix. The full expression would look like:$entity matches "ERROR:"...(Unfortunately, while there is documentation for the
matchoperator, the documentation formatchesseems to be missing at the moment. We’ll get that fixed)
