How to build a service in order to get data (in the form of JSON) from a Web Service and bind it to the properties of a thing automatically.

[psaxena]

Build a service which receives a response from a web service and the values which it gets in the response(JSON) are binded to the properties of a Thing.

[SajidPatel]

Can you provide more details on the usecase? There might be an alternate solution to achieve what is intended.

To answer the question directly - the service can set the property on the Thing directly.

If the service is written in the same thing -- me.myproperty=<value>

or Thing["myThing"].myproperty=<value>

[ttielebein]

Look for the service PostJSON which takes as its parameter an external web URL.It should be on the ContentLoaderFunctions Resource. The web interface you are requesting has to be RESTful, I believe.

Hope this helps!

Tori

[CarlesColl]

Hi Priyanshi,

You got the answers in the reverse order

First, as Tori said, look at ContentLoaderFunctions Resources, where you have plenty of services to call remote web services ( REST calls: POST, GET, DELETE,... , PostJSON/Text/XML, GetJSON/Text... ).

Then once received the result and parsed accordingly depending on your remote web service, you can use what Sajid said, set Thing current properties ( me.propertyName=value, or another thing Things["thingName"].propertyName = value; )

Best Regards,