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CURL.GetResultAsText

Returns the result of the transaction as text.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example value
curl	The CURL session handle.	$curl
Encoding	Optional The text encoding for result. Default is native. This function can also handle UTF-16 as well as UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE for little/big endian byte order. Possible encoding names: ANSI, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, Baltic-Win, CentralEurope-Mac, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, EasternEurope-Win, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, Korean-Johab, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Latin1, Mac, Native, ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, UTF-8, DOS or Windows. Pass native to use the native encoding of the current platform.	"UTF-8"
preserveLineEndings	Optional Whether to change line endings to CR for FileMaker. By default (0) we change the line endings to CR, so FileMaker has no trouble. Pass 1 to keep whatever line endings are there.	0

Result

The result as text.

Description

Examples

Query result as UTF-8 text:

MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl; "UTF-8")

Query result as Windows Ansi encoding:

MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl; "windows")

Get result text and convert line endings for FileMaker:

MBS("Text.ReplaceNewline"; MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl);1)

Download some text:

Set Variable [$curl; Value:MBS("CURL.New")]
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; CURL Test::URL)]
Set Field [CURL Test::Result; MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl)]
Set Field [CURL Test::Text; MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl; "UTF8")]
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.Cleanup"; $curl)]

Download a text from URL:

# start new transfer
Set Variable [$curl; Value:MBS("CURL.New")]
# set URL
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "https://www.mbsplugins.eu/")]
# run transfer
Set Variable [$ErrorCode; Value:MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl)]
# get result as text and debug messages:
Set Variable [$TextResult; Value:MBS( "CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl)]
Set Variable [$DebugMessages; Value:MBS( "CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl)]
# cleanup
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("CURL.Cleanup"; $curl)]

Query webservice with JSON request:

Set Variable [$curl; Value:MBS("CURL.New")]
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "http://test.test/ws/v1/catalogo/getmodelos")]
#pass JSON for query
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; $curl; "{\"brandId\" : \"1\", \"device\" : \"70\"}"; "UTF-8")]
Set Field [models::result; MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl)]
Set Field [models::text; MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl;"UTF8")]
Set Field [models::header; MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl)]
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.Cleanup"; $curl)]

See also

• CURL.GetDebugAsText
• CURL.GetHeaderAsText
• CURL.GetInputAsText
• CURL.GetResultAsData
• CURL.GetResultAsEmail
• CURL.GetResultAsGIF
• CURL.GetResultAsJPEG
• CURL.GetResultAsPDF
• CURL.GetResultAsPNG
• CURL.SetupAWS
• CURL.SetupOAuth
• CURL.UseSystemCertificates
• JSON.GetPathItem
• JSON.Parse
• Text.ReplaceNewline

Example Databases

• CURL/CURL Download Text
• CURL/CURL with certificates included with FileMaker
• CURL/Email/Email Client
• CURL/Email/List IMAP folders
• CURL/Email/old examples/Email Client IMAP
• CURL/WebServices/CURL Query external IP
• CURL/WebServices/ebay webservice/ebay Webservice
• CURL/WebServices/Google Maps API/Google Maps API
• CURL/WebServices/Query IP and Country
• CURL/WebServices/Twilio API Send SMS Json

Blog Entries

• Using Apple's Global Service Exchange web service in FileMaker
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 9.3pr6
• Let CURL handle cookie list
• Use root certificates included with FileMaker
• Using Apple's Global Service Exchange web service in FileMaker
• Query geolocation in FileMaker via MBS Plugin and Google Maps API
• Using NetVerify web service with FileMaker
• Swiss Post Webservice to verify addresses
• Using CURL with Rosette web service
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.2pr7

Release notes

• Version 9.3
  • Added preserveLineEndings parameter for CURL.GetDebugAsText, CURL.GetHeaderAsText, CURL.GetInputAsText and CURL.GetResultAsText function.

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 16th July 2019

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