Accessing request.data with for loop

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RetoE — Invalid Date

Hi,

I am testing jsreport with jsreportonline. I was able to make a REST Call to get the data from our webservice (Dreamfactory), but I am struggeling to access the data for the report.

Here is my beforeRender code:

With request.template.content = request.data.rows; I get the following report:

So far so good.

Now I want to use this data in the report. I followed the example of the deep dive video and switched to jsrender with a for loop:

But the rendered report only shows the h1 title. No data is displayed by the for loop.

What am I doing wrong?

Thx for any help.

Reto E.

Reply to Accessing request.data with for loop on Invalid Date

jan_blaha — Invalid Date

This is likely because the body in the response from your API is string. Not a JSON.
You should add the json: true to the request parameter like:

require('request')({ url: '....', json: true, ... })

See the request docs for details.

Reply to Accessing request.data with for loop on Mon, 09 Oct 2017 08:15:11 GMT

RetoE — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 08:15:11 GMT

Thx.
I added the json: true and had to remove the JSON.stringify from the request body.
Now it works fine.

Reply to Accessing request.data with for loop on Invalid Date

jan_blaha — Invalid Date

Oh I forgot to mention that. Glad it works now.