I know there are lots of great material out there that showcase the power of Maximo REST API. But my question here is using Maximo automation script, how can we access another external systems Rest API. How to append the header details, the payload, etc. It would be great to share any sample scripts.

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keshav ravindran
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Hi Keshav

Sorry for the slow response - Anamitra provided the following


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Tom Sarasin
Maximo Designer
IBM
(978) 899-2592
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Hi Tom,

Thank you so much for sharing this information.

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Kalaiselvan Matheswaran
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu April 09, 2020 09:09 AM
From: Tom Sarasin
Subject: Acessing External System REST API Using Maximo Automation Scripts

Hi Keshav

Sorry for the slow response - Anamitra provided the following

jsonData = service.httpgetasjson("the url",None,None,None)

 

asset = jsonData.get("assetnum")

 

print asset

 

Now the last 3 params - None,None,None - are userid,headers,password - in that sequence. They can pass the headers as a string like

 

accept:application/json,header2:value,header3:value3

 

basically a comma separate colon delimited set of header value pairs.

 

We have a similar way to invoke a POST

 

jsonData = service.httppostasjson(url,None,None,None,jsonReq)

 

where jsonReq can be formed like below

 

jsonReq = JSONObject()

jsonReq.put("assetnum":"AS001")

jsonReq.put("siteid":"BEDFORD")

 

Note that here for some reason the order of the None,None,None -> user,pass,headers - so basically the password is right next to the userid (unlike the GET where its after the headers)

 
Please let us know if this helps.

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Tom Sarasin
Maximo Designer
IBM
(978) 899-2592
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