Prevent Shortcuts from removing the XML response tags?

[charlesboc]

I created a simple shortcut to retrieve & update the config of an IP camera using the ISAPI protocol from HikVision.
The API response is in XML. The full XML response body is displayed correctly when the shortcut succeeds.
Problem: when I try reading the response.body with a script, the body is a string which contains only the text of the XML response, i.e. all the XML tags have been removed.
Is there a way to get access to the raw XML response body, with all its tags, as it was sent by the server?
I need it to send it back to the server in a subsequent call.
Thank you!

[Waboodoo]

Hello,
The response.body will actually give you the raw response body as a string. It doesn't remove any tags, so it should already work for what you are trying to achieve. I think the confusion here might stem from the fact that the alert / showDialog function (which I assume you probably used to inspect the response) interprets its input as HTML (or, a subset thereof). As such, it will not display any of the XML tags that aren't also valid HTML tags that it supports, leading to rather useless and confusing output. The content of response.body itself however still contains the tags. You can verify this by using the logEvent(response.body) function, which will create an entry in the Event History, which you can find on the app's Settings screen in the Troubleshooting section.
Hope this helps. I'll see that I can improve the way the alert dialog displays text.

[charlesboc]

You're completely right, I was using showDialog and I missed the fact that it supports HTML. Once HTML encoding is added, I can see the full response body. Thank a lot for the quick reply!