Displaying an Image from External API on Interface Load ?

RE: Displaying an Image from External API on Interface Load ?

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:15:46 GMT

[quote userid="220407" url="~/discussions/f/integrations/29232/displaying-an-image-from-external-api-on-interface-load/115668#115668"]unless "refreshAlways" is true for that local variable[/quote]

And if you try using a local variable set to RefreshAlways?

RE: Displaying an Image from External API on Interface Load ?

Trung Tran — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:37:46 GMT

it would give me this because inside this call use smartservice to convert base64 into image: Could not display interface. Please check definition and inputs. Interface Definition: Expression evaluation error : An error occurred when creating local!CallWebAPI. a!save() and smart service functions cannot be used in a local variable unless "refreshAlways" is true for that local variable using the a!refreshVariable() function.

RE: Displaying an Image from External API on Interface Load ?

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:03:58 GMT

I haven't tried this, so I have no idea whether it would really work, but just for the sake of thoroughness, what would happen if you declare a local variable as the result of the API call?

RE: Displaying an Image from External API on Interface Load ?

Trung Tran — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:00:07 GMT

oh ok, thank you, yeah it returns a base64 encoded string of an image, which is why I need to use saveInto so it converts to an image for display back, etc...

RE: Displaying an Image from External API on Interface Load ?

Mathieu Drouin — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:24:13 GMT

The API would have to return a URL to the image for that to work.