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Parsing an API Response

Last edit: Oct 26, 2022

This guide will help you parse an API response.

In this example, you will store part of the response in a Property for later reference using GraphQL mutations in callback, since you are able to access response body via response.body.

The tutorial assumes the API returns JSON like:

{
  "third_party_api_id": "id-1"
}

and you want store the third_party_api_id value (which is id-1).

Requirements

To follow the steps in this tutorial, you should understand the concept of users and Properties. You'll use the user profile and API Call Notification created in previous tutorials.

Steps

Parsing an API response is a four-step process:

Step 1: Create Property

As a first step, create a Property in the user profile. In this example, you will use default_profile.

Step 2: Add GraphQL mutation

Add GraphQL mutation:

app/graphql/store_third_party_api_id.graphql
mutation store_third_party_api_id($user_id: ID!, $third_party_api_id: String!) {
  user_update(
    id: $user_id
    user: {
      profiles: [
        {
          name: "default",
          values: {
            properties: [{ name: "third_party_api_id", value: $third_party_api_id }]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
    form_name: "callback_third_party_api_id"
  ) {
    id
  }
}

Step 3: Create Form

The mutation you created provides input for the Form called callback_third_party_api_id, so create this Form:

app/forms/callback_third_party_api_id.liquid
---
resource: User
fields:
  profiles:
    default:
      properties:
        third_party_api_id:
---

Step 4: Extend API Call Notification with callback

Extend the API Call Notification by adding the proper callback, which executes the mutation with the input received form the third party API:

app/api_calls/ping_example_com_on_user_sign_up.liquid

---
to: 'https://example.com/endpoint/{{ form.id }}'
callback: "{%- assign response_json = response.body | to_hash -%}{% graphql res = 'persist_custom_attribute', id: form.id, third_party_api_id: response_json.third_party_api_id %}"
---

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