How to execute web requests from behavior delegate without additional input from user?

My goal is to make a setup for my widget with some fancy ProgressBar animation. As I discovered it is impossible to start app in ProgressBar view i have to create transitional view and delegate(SetupEntry and SetupEntryDelegate). Delegate checks if bluetooth is connected and finally push ProgressBarView. Then I make a couple chained web requests. As this setup should be automated I need it to run without additional clicks so I do it from constructor, but probably it is not the right way, because I am getting -300 errors(Request timed out before a response was received ) and call stack does not seem right. What are common patterns in solving similar automated setup and download problems?

github.com/.../progress.mc

Edit: for ease link to full project repository: https://github.com/adas291/TrafiWidgetFix

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_psx_ over 3 years ago in reply to adas +1 verified

you set:

var options = {
            :responseType => Communications.HTTP_RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE_JSON,
            :headers => {
                "Content-Type" => Communications.REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPE_URL_ENCODED
            }
        };

so url…
_psx_ over 3 years ago in reply to adas +1

of course

var _url1 = Lang.format(""vilniaus"]);">kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/.../$1$",["vilniaus"]);

gives you

>>>https://kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/stopActivity…

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0 adas over 3 years ago in reply to _psx_

It is same as street (s) in english in most cases optional.

+1 _psx_ over 3 years ago in reply to adas

you set:

var options = {
            :responseType => Communications.HTTP_RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE_JSON,
            :headers => {
                "Content-Type" => Communications.REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPE_URL_ENCODED
            }
        };

so url has to be encoded and it isn't because there is a space " g."!

modify code to:

private var _url1 = Lang.format("">kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/.../$1$",[Communications.encodeURL(home)]);
private var _url2 = Lang.format("">kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/.../$1$",[Communications.encodeURL(work)]);

0 adas over 3 years ago in reply to _psx_

Hmm, that's very interesting, when I try to hardcode(or put into properties) url ending like:

private var _url1 = Lang.format("https://kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/stopActivity/$1$",["vilniaus"]);
private var _url2 = Lang.format("https://kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/stopActivity/$1$",["utenos"]);

finally simulator runs smoothly. But as i am adding spaces or dots it fails. Also strange is that even with correct url(without conflicting characters) when using Communications.encodeURL() method it also fails to download.

However you finally found what crashes my code and I really appreciate that <3

0 _psx_ over 3 years ago in reply to adas

of course

var _url1 = Lang.format(""vilniaus"]);">kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/.../$1$",["vilniaus"]);

gives you

>>>https://kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/stopActivity/vilniaus<<<

but in properties is Mituvos g. so it looks

>>>https://kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/stopActivity/Mituvos g.<<< and is space

and should be

>>>https://kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/stopActivity/Mituvos%20g<<<

in my opinion Communications.encodeURL() run bad becouse encodes /

Communications.encodeURL("kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/.../Mituvos g.");

gives

https%3A%2F%2Fkauno-autai.herokuapp.com%2FstopActivity%2FMituvos%20g.

end even chrome return error

0 jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to _psx_

When doing a makeWebRequest, you never want to have any param as part of the URL which looks to be the case here:

var _url1 = Lang.format(""vilniaus"]);">kauno-autai.herokuapp.com/.../$1$",["vilniaus"]);

All params should be in the params that are passed to the call

0 _psx_ over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

" g." isn't a param

https://x.com/x-g

is ok

but

https://x.com/x g

not

0 jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to _psx_

,["vilnaus"] is a param that's part of the url in the code you posted.

Not sure of the current state, but that would work with Android and not iOS for a long time.

0 _psx_ over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

no [] is the array to format

0 flowstate over 3 years ago in reply to _psx_

_psx_ said:
in my opinion Communications.encodeURL() run bad becouse encodes /

Yep, it should be called encodeURIComponent() (or something similar), to make it clear that you can't call it on a full URI/URL. Also, the proper usage should be documented, and there should be an example.

For example, javascript has both encodeURI() and encodeURIComponent(). encodeURI() is meant to encode full URLs, whereas encodeURIComponent() is meant to encode things like query string parameters. And the documentation explains in which situations each one should be used. The actual implementation difference is that encodeURIComponent() encodes ";,/?:@&=+$#" and encodeURI() does not.

Having said all of that, if you only get to choose one of those functions, you probably want encodeURIComponent's functionality, which is seemingly what Monkey C gives us.

0 adas over 3 years ago in reply to flowstate

I guess this problem is eventually solved. Thank you everyone