Input

Name

Description

Type

Optional

baseUrl

The base url of the REST service (ex.: “https://api.twitter.com/1.1/”).

Required, unless specified in the “BaseUrl” configuration field.

String

resource

The resource (ex.: “statuses/show.json”).

Required, unless specified in the “Resource” configuration field.

String

data

A Key/Value pair collection of parameters to post (ex.: “id”, “210462857140252672”, “trim_user”, “true”).

Dataset

contentType

The media type of the request (ex.: “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”, “text/plain”; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME_type).

Defaults to the “ContentType” configuration field, if specified.

String

fields

A list containing the names of the first-level fields to return in the Dictionary; a null or empty list implies that all fields are returned.

List of string

jsonFieldNames

A list containing the names of fields (regardless of the level) that have to be mapped to the corresponding fields specified in the dictionaryFieldNames list; a null or empty list implies that the field names in the Json structure will be used as keys in the returned dataset.

List of string

dictionaryFieldNames

A list containing the names of the dictionary keys corresponding to the field names specified in the jsonFieldNames list; a null or empty list implies that the field names in the Json structure will be used as keys in the returned dataset.

List of string

valuesIfNull

A Key/Value pair collection containing values to assign to the specified fields if their returned value is null.

Example: if valuesIfNull contains

“first_name”, “”

“trim_user”, false

the returned Dataset will have

any field named “first_name” (at any level) valued with “” instead of null

and any field named “trim_user” (at any level) valued with false instead of null.

Dataset

Output

Name

Description

Type

Optional

returnValue

A Dataset containing the fields of the Json structure returned by the REST invocation.

Dataset