FetchRemote

This function allows you to post and receive data from HTTP servers. The calls are asynchronous so you do not get an immediate result from the call, instead a callback function you specify is called when the download completes.

In the case when the call fails, a string containing "ERROR" followed by an integer containing the error reason will be passed to the callback function. The reason for failure will be similar to errors found with websites - file not found, server not found and timeouts.

If you are using fetchRemote to connect to a PHP script, you can use file_get_contents('php://input') to read the postData sent from this function.

[[{{{image}}}|link=|]]	Note: Client side function only works with the server the player is connected to unless the domain has been accepted with requestBrowserDomains

[[|link=|]]	Warning: function won't trigger inside another fetchRemote function

[[|link=|]]	Warning: When using toJSON for submitting data, make sure to use string.sub(data, 2, -2) to remove the brackets as many APIs will not understand the request

Syntax

bool fetchRemote ( string URL, [ string queueName = "default" ], [ int connectionAttempts = 10, int connectTimeout = 10000 ], function callbackFunction, [ string postData = "",  bool postIsBinary = false ], [ arguments... ] )

Required Arguments

• URL: A full URL in the format http://hostname/path/file.ext. A port can be specified with a colon followed by a port number appended to the hostname.
• callbackFunction: This is the function that should receive the data returned from the remote server. The callback argument list should be:
  • responseData - A string containing the remote response or "ERROR" if there was a problem
  • error - A number containing the error number or zero if there was no error. A list of possible error values are:
• 1-89: See cURL website or its mirror at cURL errors
• 400-599: See HTTP status codes
• 1002: Download aborted
• 1003: Failed to initialize
• 1004: Unable to parse url
• 1005: Unable to resolve host name
• 1006: Destination IP not allowed
• 1007: File error

• arguments... - The arguments that were passed into fetchRemote

Optional Arguments

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• queueName: Name of the queue to use. Any name can be used. If not set, the queue name is "default". Requests in the same queue are processed in order, one at a time.

• connectionAttempts: Number of times to retry if the remote host does not respond. In the case of a non-responding remote server, each connection attempt will timeout after 10 seconds. Therefore, the default setting of 10 connection attempts means it will be 100 seconds before your script gets a callback about the error. Reducing this value to 2 for example, will decrease that period to 20 seconds
• connectTimeout: Number of milliseconds each connection attempt will take before timing out
• postData: A string specifying any data you want to send to the remote HTTP server.
• postIsBinary : A boolean specifying if the data is text, or binary.
• arguments: Any arguments you may want to pass to the callback.

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Syntax

bool fetchRemote ( string URL[, table options ], callback callbackFunction[, table callbackArguments ] )

Required Arguments

• URL: A full URL in the format http://hostname/path/file.ext. A port can be specified with a colon followed by a port number appended to the hostname.
• callbackFunction: This is the function that should receive the data returned from the remote server. The callback argument list should be:
  • responseData - A string containing the remote response
  • responseInfo - A table containing:
    • success - A boolean indicating if the request was successful.
    • statusCode - An integer status/error code
    • headers - A table containing the HTTP response headers
  • arguments... - The arguments that were passed into fetchRemote

Optional Arguments

• options: A table containing any request options:
  • queueName: Name of the queue to use. Any name can be used. If not set, the queue name is "default". Requests in the same queue are processed in order, one at a time.
  • connectionAttempts: Number of times to retry if the remote host does not respond. (Defaults to 10)
  • connectTimeout: Number of milliseconds each connection attempt will take before timing out. (Defaults to 10000)
  • postData: A string specifying any data you want to send to the remote HTTP server.
  • postIsBinary : A boolean specifying if the data is text, or binary. (Defaults to false)
  • method: A string specifying the request method. (Defaults to GET or POST)
  • headers: A table containing HTTP request headers. e.g.{ Pragma="no-cache" }
  • maxRedirects: An integer limiting the number of HTTP redirections to automatically follow. (Defaults to 8)
  • username: A string specifying the username for protected pages.
  • password: A string specifying the password for protected pages.

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• • formFields: A table containing form items to submit. (for POST method only) e.g.{ name="bob", email="[email protected]" }

• arguments: A table containing arguments you may want to pass to the callback.

Returns

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Returns a request value which can be used with getRemoteRequestInfo or abortRemoteRequest

Example

This example shows you how you can fetch an image from a web page, and transfer it to a particular client:

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Server

function startImageDownload( playerToReceive )
    fetchRemote ( "http://www.example.com/image.jpg", myCallback, "", false, playerToReceive )
end

function myCallback( responseData, errorCode, playerToReceive )
    if errorCode == 0 then
        triggerClientEvent( playerToReceive, "onClientGotImage", resourceRoot, responseData )
    end
end

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Client

addEvent( "onClientGotImage", true )
addEventHandler( "onClientGotImage", resourceRoot,
    function( pixels )
        if myTexture then
            destroyElement( myTexture )
        end
        myTexture = dxCreateTexture( pixels )
    end
)

addEventHandler("onClientRender", root,
    function()
        if myTexture then
            local w,h = dxGetMaterialSize( myTexture )
            dxDrawImage( 200, 100, w, h, myTexture )
        end
    end
)

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Example sending email via a web service (adopted from examples on https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/user_manual.html)

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Server

sendOptions = {
    queueName = "My Mailgun queue",
    connectionAttempts = 3,
    connectTimeout = 5000,
    formFields = {
        from="Excited User <[email protected]>",
        to="[email protected]",
        subject="Hello",
        text="Testing some Mailgun awesomness!",
    },
    username="api",
    password="key-3ax6xnjp29jd6fds4gc373sgvjxteol0",
}
fetchRemote( "https://api.mailgun.net/v3/samples.mailgun.org/messages", sendOptions, mailgunCompleteCallback )

function mailgunCompleteCallback(data, info)
    outputDebugString( "mailgunComplete"
            .. " success:" .. tostring(info.success)
            .. " statusCode:" .. tostring(info.statusCode)
            .. " data:" .. tostring(data)
            )
end

Changing post content on IPS forum.

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Server

local apiKey = "12345678123456781234567812345678" -- key from ips admin panel
local forumAddress = "https://yourForum.com"
function setPostContent(postID,content)
  local sendOptions = {
    queueName = "updatePost",
    connectionAttempts = 1,
    connectTimeout = 50,
    formFields = {
      post = content,
    },
  }
  fetchRemote( forumAddress.."/api/forums/posts/"..postID.."?key="..apiKey, sendOptions, function()end)
end

setPostContent(1, "this is a first post on this forum")

Changelog

Version	Description

1.3.1-9.04605

Added connectionAttempts argument

1.3.2

Added client side

1.5.3-9.11270

Added queueName argument

1.5.4-9.11342

Added alternative syntax

1.5.4-9.11413

Added formFields

See Also

• abortRemoteRequest
• call
• fetchRemote
• getResourceConfig
• getResourceDynamicElementRoot
• getResourceExportedFunctions
• getResourceFromName
• getResourceName
• getResourceRootElement
• getResourceState
• getThisResource
• getRemoteRequests
• getRemoteRequestInfo