Calling External API with Javascript

Question

I need to make a POST request to an external server from my webpage using Javascript. The body and response are both json. I can\'t figure out how to make this call or what tool

Answer 1

When you want to use different domain ajax call then you need to use the JSONP datatype which will allow browser to do cross domain request.

Here is more document for the JSONP : https://learn.jquery.com/ajax/working-with-jsonp/

var body = '{"method":"getViews","params":{"filter":{"operator":"and","clauses":[{"operator‌​":"matches","value":"'+ inputValue +'"}]},"order":[{"field":"name","ascending":true}],"page":{"startIndex":0,"maxIt‌​ems":5}}}';
var response = $.ajax({
           url: "http://" + environment + "/vizportal/api/web/v1/getViews",
           method: "post",
           dataType:'jsonp',
           data: JSON.stringify(body),
           headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
            'X-XSRF-TOKEN' : XSRFToken,
            'Cookie': 'workgroup_session_id='+workgroupSessionId+';XSRF-TOKEN='+XSRFToken
           },
           success:function(response){
                alert("success");
            },
            error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { 
                alert("Status: " + textStatus); alert("Error: " + errorThrown); 
            } 
        });