Calling external Web Services from an Extension

[#1]

Does anyone have any experience in creating an extension which can consume the response from an external webservice ? I believe this may be possible using JQuery but have no experience of using it.

Thanks

Lucy

[amars]

See if the attached example helps.

[saxjonas]

It highly depends on what you want to do.

Just remember that when you're now using the Ajax client the same browser restrictions as a normal webpage is in work. That is, no xmlhttprequests can be done unless the remote host permits it explicitly.

So what do you want to achieve?

[#4]

Thanks Jonas,

I would like to build an Extension which can call a property finder webservice and display the feedback based on selections made in the document. I am aware that Javascript has restrictions around calling webservices on external servers but also that there are "workarounds", I just can't get them to work!

regards

Lucy

[saxjonas]

Is it some kind of internal report tool?
Often you could simply have an iframe using your selections as a parameter to the src URL.

Could you show with a flow chart just how you're thinking? For example:

User selects Report ID -> QV Extension fetches data from http://url/?reportid=[chosen reportid]-> Extension displays data.