AJAX call to external API in user-macro

[krzychus]

Hi, 

I don't know why but all the time I'm getting error: "Error rendering macro 'currentdate' : Error occurred rendering template content"

This is my code:

## @param Name:title=Name|type=string|required=true|desc=Your name
<script type="javascript>
AJS.$.ajax({
  url: URL_WITH_NO_QUOTES,
type: "GET",
contentType: "application/json",
  success: function(msg){
    alert(msg);
  }
});
</script>

what I'm doing wrong here? 

[Shun Hirayanagi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I suppose $ is treated as a special character used by Velocity template. So, you need to escape it.
I hope the following code will work.

## @param Name:title=Name|type=string|required=true|desc=Your name

#set($D='$')

<script type="text/javascript">
AJS.${D}.ajax({
  url: URL_WITH_NO_QUOTES,
type: "GET",
contentType: "application/json",
  success: function(msg){
    alert(msg);
  }
});
</script>

Besides, <script type="javascript> in your code should be quoted properly.

[krzychus]

Yes it is working. Actually I don;t even have to write the $. All I need is:

AJS.ajax ...