Level 1
use this
return Response::json($response);
Oct 3, 2022
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Level 6
handle response from body string of external api
The external api that I'm trying to integrate works so that it always returns http 200 response and errors or success messages are contained in the xml body instead.
Here're the examples of successful and unsuccessful response bodies:
$response = Http::post('http://example.com/myendpoint', $data);
/** Successful request response */
$response->ok(); // Output: true
$response->body();
/*
"<ProcessJobResponse>
<ProcessJobResult>
<Response>
<Status code="200" text="OK" />
</Response>
</ProcessJobResult>
</ProcessJobResponse>"
*/
/** Unsuccessful request response */
$response->ok(); // Output: true
$response->body();
/*
<ProcessJobResponse>
<ProcessJobResult>
<Response>
<Status code="500" text="Import failed on Job: 55 - Object reference not set to an instance of an object." />
</Response>
</ProcessJobResult>
</ProcessJobResponse>
*/
Can't figure out how to structure the response returns in my api implementation correctly in this case. I can convert xml to array, no problem there.
Level 51
Try to check against $response->status() and check: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/http-client#error-handling
Level 6
@MohamedTammam $response->status() will always be ok as the api returns errors in body string with http headers being okey anyway.
Level 51
@dmag I'm not sure about that, did you check yourself?
Level 55
@dmag you need to parse the body as xml (for example - using SimpleXML https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php)
next you can convert it to array (see some user notes with the solutions) and then parse the result array
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Level 102
Is this an api that could be fixed (return proper status codes) or is it external?
Level 6
@Sinnbeck it is external. Basically, I can read the code from the xml body after converting it to array, and then return my own response with proper codes and messages, just wasn't sure how to organize/structure such error handling in the client implementation.
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