Get Data from HTML in BPA Workflow

Hi ​@Furkan Zengin 

Camunda http-connector could be useful when the response is non xml/json type.

I have once setup that for text based responses and below community post by ​@Sébastien DELAURE was extremely helpful.

BPA – Use of the Service Task http-connector | IFS Community

Hope it might work for reading a HTML but looks like your html returns large amount of data and that could be a problem inside a workflow.

Such a requirement can be easily achieved by a creating a azure function/logic app which would act as a proxy which would call the web page upon a request, process data and respond as a xml/json.

Inside the workflow, you can call the azure function/logic app which would return an acceptable response by the rest API call.

Hope it helps!

Damith

Hello Damith ​@dsj 

Is the azure function app something you mentioned on your blog? I should revisit the blog to see your posts.

Thanks for the idea!

Hi ​@Furkan Zengin,

I don’t have any specifc examples in my blog ‘yet’

Check the suggestion from ​@kamnlk also. If you can find an endpoint which returns an xml, lot of time and extra work could be saved :)

Hello  ​@kamnlk 

Thank you for noticing that API. I could manage to extract data from the API.

​@dsj Thanks you for your contribution. I’d love to see samples of how to use service task on your blog :)

Furkan