API not being called by request in beforeRender

mhousey

Hell - im a newbe so please forgive my ignorance, but following all the examples i am trying to get API data as follows:

var request = require('request');
function  beforeRender(done){
    console.log('hello');
    request({
        url:"http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/receipts/1",
         method: "POST",
        json:true,
        headers: {'User-Agent':'Super Agent/0.0.1','content-type': 'application/json','Content-Length': 92},
      },function(err, response, body){
       
        console.log(body);
        request.data = {posts:body};
       console.log(request.data);
        done();
    })    
}

using the debug, i find that the script is being executed:

+0      Starting rendering request 26 (user: null)
+7      Rendering template { name: index, recipe: chrome-pdf, engine: handlebars, preview: true }
+13     Data item not defined for this template.
+19     Resources not defined for this template.
+31     Executing script indexScript
+1241   hello
+1264   Base url not specified, skipping its injection.
+1268   Rendering engine handlebars
+1853   Compiled template not found in the cache, compiling
+1873   Executing recipe chrome-pdf
+2271   Converting with chrome HeadlessChrome/72.0.3617.0 using dedicated-process strategy
+2802   Running chrome with params {"printBackground":true,"margin":{}}
+3344   Skipping storing report.

But my fiddler tells me the http request to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/receipts/1 is never made for some reason...

I'm banging my head on this one

jan_blaha

Are you using the latest jsreport,or at least the v2 version?
The script hooks have different signature there. See the docs
https://jsreport.net/learn/scripts

Your script should look like this

var request = require('request');
function  beforeRender(req, res, done){
    console.log('hello');
    request({
        url:"http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/receipts/1",
         method: "POST",
        json:true,
        headers: {'User-Agent':'Super Agent/0.0.1','content-type': 'application/json','Content-Length': 92},
      },function(err, response, body){
       
        console.log(body);
        req.data = {posts:body};
       console.log(req.data);
        done();
    })    
}