I played around with UiPath Orchestrator package. And the connection worked out with the installed node.js package.
Anyway now I need to implement it in my website in a way where I get access it from a simple html
site.
There I struggle a bit with getting it to run. This is how I would like to use it:
index.html:
<html>
...
<button onclick="test()">Do something</button>
...
<script src="scripts.js"></script>
...
</html>
server.js: (I start with node server.js
)
var http = require('http'),
fs = require('fs');
const port = 6543;
const path = require('path');
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
let filePath = path.join(
__dirname,
req.url === "/" ? "index.html" : req.url
);
let extName = path.extname(filePath);
let contentType = 'text/html';
switch (extName) {
case '.js':
contentType = 'text/javascript';
break;
}
console.log(`File path: ${filePath}`);
console.log(`Content-Type: ${contentType}`);
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': contentType});
const readStream = fs.createReadStream(filePath);
readStream.pipe(res);
});
server.listen(port, (err) => {
...
});
scripts.js:
function test() {
...
// get the orch object here without defining it here as it contains credentials
var orchestratorInstance = new Orchestrator({
tenancyName: string (optional),
usernameOrEmailAddress: string (required),
password: string (required),
hostname: string (required),
isSecure: boolean (optional, default=true),
port: integer (optional, [1..65535], default={443,80} depending on isSecure),
invalidCertificate: boolean (optional, default=false),
connectionPool: number (optional, 0=unlimited, default=1)
});
}
This works. So the test function is fired.
But now I would like to get the Orchestrator
object (like shown here https://www.npmjs.com/package/uipath-orchestrator).
How to do it in the best way?
Maybe just pass-through that object to the scripts.js
file itself? But how to do that with window
or global
and would that be a proper solution?
I need the server-side generated object as it contains credentials that may not be delivered to client-side.
It works perfectly together with UiPath-Orchestrator nodejs.
So just use:
var util = require('util');
var Orchestrator = require('uipath-orchestrator');
var orchestrator = new Orchestrator({
tenancyName: 'test', // The Orchestrator Tenancy
usernameOrEmailAddress: 'xxx',// The Orchestrator login
password: 'yyy', // The Orchestrator password
hostname: 'host.company.com', // The instance hostname
isSecure: true, // optional (defaults to true)
port: 443, // optional (defaults to 80 or 443 based on isSecure)
invalidCertificate: false, // optional (defaults to false)
connectionPool: 5 // options, 0=unlimited (defaults to 1)
});
var apiPath = '/odata/Users';
var apiQuery = {};
orchestrator.get(apiPath, apiQuery, function (err, data) {
if (err) {
console.error('Error: ' + err);
}
console.log('Data: ' + util.inspect(data));
});
and extract the orchestrator
object to your node.js
code.
It also works together with Orchestrator Cloud (if you don't have the on-prem), see here for more info.