Info logging

RE: Info logging

Richard Michaelis — Fri, 13 May 2022 14:53:47 GMT

i think this should be a corner case here which cannot be served properly....

RE: Info logging

Marco — Fri, 13 May 2022 14:43:11 GMT

I understand the difference between get and post. We just want a record of what is gotten through those gets that the current log system doesn't account for.

RE: Info logging

Richard Michaelis — Fri, 13 May 2022 14:17:07 GMT

which is absolutely correct.
Appian is following HTTP standards here.
Please follow them as well.
Every method has its sense.

GET is used to request data from a specified resource.
POST is used to send data to a server to create/update a resource.
If you want to create data (aka storing in DB) POST is your method of choice.
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_httpmethods.asp

-> to solve this issue for tracking the APi usage, you should perhaps check, if its possible to just offer "POST" Apis.

RE: Info logging

Marco — Fri, 13 May 2022 13:52:26 GMT

Depends on the API's method. POST methods allow for smart services to be called (like process models), so there is no problem tossing in something to write the data from that. But GET methods don't allow for smart services. No smart services means we can't write to DB

RE: Info logging

Manish_Kumar — Fri, 13 May 2022 04:50:36 GMT

Hi Marco,

Before you hit the API you must be having the request body and once it return the result , you will have your response , So if you hit your API using the expression rule or PM , you will have all the things to call a subprocess which will dump the data in DB. I am not sure why it cannot be achieved . We also have a similar shared subprocess which do it for all API calls.

RE: Info logging

Marco — Thu, 12 May 2022 14:24:11 GMT

Yes, but the actual data in the body is scrambled, making it useless. Also logs aren't exactly friendly to look through and sort. We want to have something a bit easier to filter through and organize. Something that we can actually use in Appian as opposed to a file we have to manually download and sift through.

RE: Info logging

venkyuppala09 — Thu, 12 May 2022 07:25:46 GMT

Have you enabled the logging option for your integrations? If so appian logs the request and response body as well.
For more info please check this URL docs.appian.com/.../Integration_Object.html

RE: Info logging

Marco — Wed, 11 May 2022 17:57:44 GMT

That is more or less what I'd planned on doing, but the only problem with that is "get" method API's don't allow smart services (like starting a process model or writing to the database), so I'm not sure how to trigger the write for that.

RE: Info logging

Richard Michaelis — Wed, 04 May 2022 20:55:03 GMT

Hi Marco,