Hey everyone, is there a way to automatically retrieve the XMLs of objects (Integration objects in particular) of an application?
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What do you mean with "automatically"? What is the use case?
I need to retrieve the XMLs of objects and parse through the xml to get certain key value pairs of the default test cases which I need to use in the process model.
The only way I am aware of to get the XML is by exporting an application or package.
I am interested in more detail in your use case? You mention key value pairs and test cases. What do you want to achieve?
We want to get those values and save them in DB and then use them in a rule in a process model where we can piece the name, parameters together and call the integrations using the eval function and retrieve the statusCode and see if the integration health is working without any errors or not.
We wanna automate the process of retrieving those XMLs of the integrations so we can directly save them into DB without the manual activity of having to enter the integration names, parameters and save them to DB.
That seems to be a very wild concept. An hearing "eval" does not make it any better.
Is this about trying to monitor the integrated systems?
Yeah, exactly that.
I strongly recommend to leave monitoring of any systems to software made for this specific use case. I tried that several times and Appian is just no good choice for this.
I think you'd be better off building a separate Integration that conducts a "heartbeat" call to the remote system, which doesn't change the state of the remote system but can raise an alert if the remote system cannot be contacted.
hm alright, thanks.
We are doing heartbeat calls only. We just need a way to collect the names of all integrations across the environment so we can call them in the process.