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The Generic Integration Panel generic intergrations is a quick, easy way to connect to 3rd party systems within your Logic+ flow. This panel executes a defined request to a configured generic integration (Admin > Configuration > Integrations) and is useful to push or pull data between Sharpen and an available RESTful API.

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Info

If you don’t already have an integration setup, navigate to Admin > Configuration > Integrations. Then, click “Add Integration” in the upper right to give your integration a name, input the base URL and protocol.

If you will always authorize the integration the same way, choose the appropriate authorization type from the dropdown.

If you will authorize via your API call in Logic+, choose “None” for the Authorization Type so that you can specify your auth within the Generic Integration body itself.

Panel Configuration

Configure the generic integration panel like most other panels in Logic+ with one, notable (and great) addition – the API preview directly underneath the Panel Name. This won’t do much until you’ve filled out the panel, so we are going to come back to that after looking at the specific fields.

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Fields

  • Integration ID: Universally unique identifier representing a RESTful generic integration configured within Admin > Configuration > Integrations. Click the integration to copy the integrationID to clipboard

  • Path: Path of the API route to deliver the request. This string will be added to the base URL configured for the integrationID

  • Method: Specify one of the following HTTP methods to be used

    • GET

    • POST

    • PUT

    • DELETE

    • PATCH

  • Data: JSON stringified request body

  • Headers: JSON stringified request headers

  • Timeout: - Number of seconds to wait for a response from the integration endpoint.

    • Valid timeout ranges from 0 to 60 inclusive

    • Only applicable if ‘Fire and Forget’ is off, meaning Logic panel will pause and wait for a response

    • If not is set, the default timeout is 1 second

  • Variables: Use to store the response data from the API request

  • Name: Name of the interaction variable to store response data

  • Jsonpath: For the response object, define the JSON path to the desired data

    • Leave blank to store the entire response object

    • Or use JSON pathing such as $.results[0].firstName

  • Fire And Forget

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  • Use (Toggle)

    • Off: Panel will wait, up to the specified timeout, for a response from the integration endpoint before proceeding through an output path

    • On: Panel immediately executes an output path, ignoring any integration endpoint response

  • Use Variable

    • Specify the interaction variable for boolean evaluation. Panel execution will evaluate to TRUE (fire and forget) only for values of “1” or “true”. In all other cases, the evaluation will return FALSE causing the panel execution to wait for the integration endpoint to respond or timeout.

Exit Paths

  • Default: Generic Integration request received a valid response

  • Invalid Input: One or more of the configuration inputs was invalid

  • Timeout: Timeout duration was was met

Note: The default timeout for this panel, if none is set, is 1 second

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After running, you’ll see the API status code and the entire JSON response. Click on an element within the response (e.g. “90” in the screenshot below) and that element will automatically be set as a variable with the json JSON response. This makes setting variables significantly easier if you have complex json JSON responses or arrays.

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If the value itself is important, clicking the clipboard icon will copy the specific value. (e.g. you’ll get the value “90” copied to your clipboard.)