How to set order of HTTP query parameters in outbound REST call?

[MG Casey]

A particular outbound REST API that I am calling seems to care about the order of my parameters in the URL.

I've tried to control this in 2 different ways:

Method #1: Adding query parameters in my desired order through my script:

var incontactREST = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2('inContact_API', 'get');

incontactREST.setStringParameter("authorization", token);

incontactREST.setStringParameter('url', 'services/v11.0/agents/' + agentNum + '/statehistory');

incontactREST.setStringParameter('contentType', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

incontactREST.setQueryParameter("startDate", datestart);

incontactREST.setQueryParameter("endDate", dateend);

incontactREST.setQueryParameter("mediaTypeId", "0");

incontactREST.setQueryParameter("outboundStrategy", "0");

incontactREST.setQueryParameter("updatedSince", updatedSince);

However, this still results in the following URL:

services/v11.0/agents/2471149/statehistory?mediaTypeId=0&outboundStrategy=0&endDate=2018-02-14T00:00:00-0600&updatedSince=2018-02-13T11:19:33-0600&startDate=2018-02-13T00:00:00-0600

• I'm not quite sure how's sorting those parameters in the URL. They're definitely not alphabetical by label, nor alphabetical by value.

Method #2: Doing variable substitution, then setting the Order field on each query parameter.

var incontactREST = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2('inContact_API', 'get');

incontactREST.setStringParameter("authorization", token);

incontactREST.setStringParameter('url', 'services/v11.0/agents/' + agentNum + '/statehistory');

incontactREST.setStringParameter('contentType', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

incontactREST.setStringParameter('startDate', datestart);

incontactREST.setStringParameter('endDate', dateend);

incontactREST.setStringParameter('mediaTypeId', '0');

incontactREST.setStringParameter('outboundStrategy', '0');

incontactREST.setQueryParameter("updatedSince", updatedSince);

However, this also results in the same URL confusingly enough:

services/v11.0/agents/2471149/statehistory?mediaTypeId=0&outboundStrategy=0&endDate=2018-02-14T00:00:00-0600&updatedSince=2018-02-13T11:19:33-0600&startDate=2018-02-13T00:00:00-0600

Has anyone else run into this issue?

[Erik Stolberg · Accepted solution]

I've had problems with using Query Parameters, so your Method #3 option would be to just build your entire endpoint in the endpoint field and use the variables within it.

services/v11.0/agents/2471149/statehistory?outboundStrategy=${outboundStragety}&endDate=${endDate}&updatedSince=${updatedSince}

[MG Casey]

Ah great idea! Through the following function:

incontactREST.setEndpont( desiredURL);