Websocket node - dynamic URL

[Greg Gorman]

Hi everyone,
I'm working a flow that communicates with the Centralite Jilia.io platform. They require an access token on every URL that expires hourly - ugh...

One of the cool things about their home automation devices is that you can connect to a websocket to monitor them in real time. So, I did that, with a hard-coded access token to prove that I could do it.

My quesiton is though, if I set up a global variable with the access token in it, and a way to refresh it either by exception or every xx minutes, how do I get the Websocket listener node's URL to pick up the global variable? I tried this, but doesn't seem to work...any suggestions?

wss://api.jilia.io/v1/servers/c41da28a-e727-4dea-986b-a7d1033b7b54/events?topic=occupancy%2Fa5185dbc-82b7-47dd-b175-970606313490%2Fmotion&access_token={{{global.get("JiliaOauth")}}}

Please excuse my newbie-ness....

/Greg

[Dave C-J]

you need to "get" it into a msg. property in a previous change node (or function node if you already have one) - then pass in it in to the ws node... -  the mustache syntax only works on properties of the msg object.  so {{token}} if you used msg.token

[Greg Gorman]

Thanks for the hint Dave.  Does a ws-in node accept an incoming flow so I can do that? Wasn't obvious to me but I'll play with it some more. 

/Greg

On Aug 11, 2016 3:54 PM, "Dave C-J" <dce...@gmail.com> wrote:

you need to "get" it into a msg. property in a previous change node (or function node if you already have one) - then pass in it in to the ws node... -  the mustache syntax only works on properties of the msg object.  so {{token}} if you used msg.token

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[Dave C-J]

ahhhh - no sorry I'm being dense... you can't set it dynamically on the websocket node...

(for some reason I read ws and thought http request...)

apologies for getting your hopes up.