Components All New MacOS Windows Linux iOS
Examples Mac & Win Server Client Guides Statistic FMM Blog Deprecated Old

CURL.GetResultAsText

Returns the result of the transaction as text.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
CURL 2.5 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "CURL.GetResultAsText"; curl { ; Encoding; preserveLineEndings } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
curl The CURL session handle. $curl
Encoding 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, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.		 "UTF-8" Optional
preserveLineEndings 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 Optional

Result

The result as text.

Description

Returns the result of the transaction as text.
You are responsible for detecting decoding.

See also CURL.GetResultAsContainer.

Plugin version 5.2 and newer replace newlines automatically for you to match what FileMaker uses (Mac line endings).

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.Release"; $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.GetDebugMessages"; $curl)]
# cleanup
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("CURL.Release"; $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.GetDebugMessages"; $curl)]
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.Release"; $curl)]

Query list of emails via POP3:

# query list of emails
Set Variable [ $curl ; Value: MBS("CURL.New") ]
#
# setup pop3 server
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "pop3://sslin.df.eu/") ]
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionUseSSL"; $curl; 3) // required ]
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionSSLVersion"; $curl; 6) // TLS v1.2 ]
#
# login
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionUserName"; $curl; Postbox::Username) ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionPassword"; $curl; Postbox::Password) ]
#
# list emails
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl) ]
# We show results for debugging
Set Variable [ $output ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Variable [ $debug ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.Release"; $curl) ]
#
Set Field [ Postbox::Log ; $debug ]
Set Field [ Postbox::Output ; $output ]

Get multiple emails via POP3 over the same connection by reusing it:

# query list of emails
Set Variable [ $curl ; Value: MBS("CURL.New") ]
#
# setup pop3 server
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionUseSSL"; $curl; 3) // required ]
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionSSLVersion"; $curl; 6) // TLS v1.2 ]
#
# login
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionUserName"; $curl; IMAP Postbox::Username) ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionPassword"; $curl; IMAP Postbox::Password) ]
#
# get first email
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "pop3://sslin.df.eu/1") ]
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl) ]
#
# We show results for debugging
Set Variable [ $output ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Variable [ $debug ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Field [ IMAP Postbox::Log ; $debug ]
Set Field [ IMAP Postbox::Output ; $output ]
#
# give you time to see it
Pause/Resume Script [ Indefinitely ]
# get second email, reuse same curl connection
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "pop3://sslin.df.eu/2") ]
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl) ]
#
# We show results for debugging
Set Variable [ $output ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Variable [ $debug ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Field [ IMAP Postbox::Log ; $debug ]
Set Field [ IMAP Postbox::Output ; $output ]
#
# give you time to see it
Pause/Resume Script [ Indefinitely ]
# get third email, reuse same curl connection
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "pop3://sslin.df.eu/3") ]
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl) ]
#
# We show results for debugging
Set Variable [ $output ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Variable [ $debug ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl) ]
Set Field [ IMAP Postbox::Log ; $debug ]
Set Field [ IMAP Postbox::Output ; $output ]
#
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.Release"; $curl) ]

See also

Release notes

Example Databases

Blog Entries

This function checks for a license.

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 16th February 2023


CURL.GetResultAsPNG - CURL.GetResultLength