Custom API Action

Request Type

These are the supported HTTP request methods, or HTTP verbs, in a custom API call (see HTTP request methods).

• GET: Retrieves data from a web server based on parameters. This method requests a representation of the specified resource. If a request is successful, a 200 (OK) response message is returned with the requested content.

• GET(Streaming): Streams data from a web server based on parameters with the GET HTTP method and the related Streaming input fields.

  If the provided Relative URL doesn't support pagination, then the card performs a regular GET request and sends only one record to the helper flow. Then the value of Records Streamed is set to 1 (regardless of the Record Limit value) and the streaming process ends.

  You can provide a limit parameter to use for pagination as an input to the Query field. The valid range is from 0 to 200. If no value is provided, 200 is used as the default limit. For most cases, you don't need to manually configure a limit. However, if each payload returned from your endpoint is close to 1MB, then providing a limit lower than 200 helps to prevent exceeding the flow's memory limit.

• POST: Sends data to a web server based on parameters, for example, uploading a file. Multiple POST requests may result in a different outcome than a single POST. Exercise caution to avoid sending multiple POST requests unintentionally. If a request is successful, a 200 (OK) response message is returned.

• PUT: Sends data to be stored at a specific location on a web server based on parameters, such as uploading a file. Unlike POST requests, PUT requests are idempotent. For successful requests, the result of a single PUT request is the same as many identical PUT requests. If a request is successful, a 200 (OK), 201 (Created), or 204 (No Content) response message is returned.

• PATCH: Applies partial modifications to a resource on a web server based on parameters. PATCH isn't idempotent. Multiple PATCH requests could have unintended consequences. If a PATCH is successful, a 200 (OK) or 204 (No Content) response message is returned.

• DELETE: Deletes the specified resource if it exists from the web server based on parameters. If a DELETE is successful, a 200 (OK) response message is returned.

Dropdown

Record Limit

Specify the number of records to stream.

• When the field is set to less than 0, the card returns an error.

• When the field is set to either 0 or a value greater than 0, the stream returns up to the maximum number specified.

• When the field is empty, null, or not selected, the stream returns all records.

• The default value is 1000000 (1 million).

• The valid range is from 0 to 1000000.

This field appears when you select GET(Streaming) in the Request Type option.

The limit parameter that you can set in the Query input represents the number of records returned for each page in a pagination request, but the Record Limit field represents the total number of records you want to stream.

The maximum Record Limit is equal to 5000 times the value of the limit parameter. As the default limit is 200, by default the maximum Record Limit is 1,000,000 (that is, 200 * 5,000).

If you manually set the limit parameter, you need to calculate the maximum Record Limit. For example if you set limit=1, then the maximum number of records you can get is 5000, even if you put a number greater than 5000 into the Record Limit field.

Number

Records Streamed

Number of records streamed in a streaming flow.

This field appears when you select GET(Streaming) in the Request Type option.