Calling external web services from CRM Online Sandboxed plugin
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ReportI have seen this question many times – Can you call external endpoints from within a plugin running inside Sandbox of Dynamics CRM Online?
Recently I was riddled with the same situation where the sandbox did not allow me to call an external endpoint.
On the positive note, I was able to overcome this issue with a little tweak and I thought it might be useful to share with the community.
Problem
Say we need to call a JSON based web service from within a CRM plugin
Code that would not work
var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue( "Bearer", wsKey);
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("<your ws url>");
//Say jsonBody is typed object
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostJsonAsync("", jsonBody);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
string result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
var typedResult= JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Results>(result);
}
Modified Code that will work
var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue( "Bearer", wsKey);
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("<your ws url>");
//Rather than using a typed object, construct the JSON object manually using strings
string jsonBody = "{\"Inputs\": {\"input1\": {\"ColumnNames\": [\"AnnualReview\",\"Category\"],........";
//Rather than using PostJsonAsync use PostAsync
HttpResponseMessage response = await client
.PostAsync("", new StringContent(jsonBody , Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"))
.ConfigureAwait(false);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
string result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
//Rather than using DeserializeObject, parse the json string manually
var parsingResp = ((string)result).ParseWSResponse();
}
Learning
In nutshell, my experience has been that you can call external services as long as you stick to base .NET classes that come packaged with the framework out of the box.
This was originally posted here.
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