API_AddRecord works, API_GenAddRecordForm doesn't.

Question

API_GenAddRecordForm works fine for me when calling it from a webpage, but from my javascript page I only seem able to get API_AddRecord to work, but it doesn't take me to the record after generating it.  And, when I try API_GenAddRecordForm from Postman, instead of a qdbapi error report I get thousands of lines of html code.  My goal is to generate a new record and then view it in Edit mode from my javascript page.  What would be the correct syntax for that API call?  Thank you!

anomDiebolt · Answer

Everything is working properly - there is just some confusion over how to use the API calls.

The vast majority of the API methods return a single XML document as a response. The method API_GenAddRecordForm is an exception as it returns a HTML document as a response and included in this response are links and references to other resources such as JavaScript files, CSS files, font files etc.

When API_GenAddRecordForm is loaded from a hyperlink or entered into the address bar of a Browser, the Browser will make additional calls to the other resources and assembles everything into a visible page. However, when Postman loads API_GenAddRecordForm it only grabs the raw HTML response and does not request the other resources nor does Postman render the page (it isn't a browser and doesn't even have a rendering engine).

This explains everything your report.

The area where you are probably going astray is that in your JavaScfipt you are probably calling API_GenAddRecordForm using:

$.get("...?act=API_GenAddRecordForm...")

when you should be using:

document.location.href = "...?act=API_GenAddRecordForm..."

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