Passing Variables from Server script to Client controller in a widget

[meghanareddy206]

I've created a custom widget and the purpose of it is to execute a rest api call from server side code and get the access token(server side) and pass it to client controller script to perform SSO with a third party vendor. I'm able to execute both scripts separately and got logs for it. All I need is to pass the token and user's email through variables from server side to client controller script, I've created the data object in server side script and using $scope or c.variable to retrive the data, but I'm not getting the data back to client script.

Here is an example code:

server side:

(function() {

data.name = [];
// get current user email
var uemail;
var usr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
usr.addQuery('sys_id', gs.getUserID());
usr.query();
if(usr.next())
{
uemail = usr.email;
}
data.name.push({email: uemail});
gs.log("server side user>>>" +uemail + "and " + data.name, "Test code");

})();

client code:

function($scope) {
var c = this;
var temp = c.data.email;
alert("client code>>>" +temp); // not working

}

Do I need to define anything in the HTML template? I've included <input type="text" ng-model="c.data.name"/> in HTML too, but wont work. Any help is appreciated.

[meghanareddy206]

I'm able to achieve this by using .toString() for email, otherwise it was sending email as an object, I appreciate your help.

[SanjivMeher]

Can you change this line data.email = usr.email; to data.email = usr.getValue('email');

[meghanareddy206]

I was able to achieve this using .toString() for the email object, else it is sending the data as glide object, I appreciate your help with this.

[SanjivMeher]

Great. Can you mark this thread answered so that it will be useful for others

[patricklatella]

Hi Sanjiv,

seeing your post and looking to do exactly this...however my script isn't working...can you take a look?  I'm trying to pass the "data.count" value from the server to the client so I can use it in a "addInfoMessage".  The info message keeps showing "undefinded"...can you see what I'm doing wrong?  thanks Sanjiv!

SERVER SCRIPT:

var gaIncCount = new GlideAggregate('incident');
gaIncCount.addQuery('active','true');
gaIncCount.addQuery('assignment_group','f57bbd87ebff23008f833c4fea887e46');
gaIncCount.addQuery('contact_type','walk-in');
gaIncCount.addAggregate('COUNT');
gaIncCount.query();

var count = 0;

if(gaIncCount.next()){

count = gaIncCount.getAggregate('COUNT');
console.log('row count is '+count);//shows correctly

data.count = gaIncCount.getAggregate('COUNT'); //this is what I need to send to client
console.log('data.count is '+data.count);//shows correctly
}

}

CLIENT SCRIPT

function($scope, spUtil, $window) {

var c = this;
c.data.user = {value:'',displayValue:''};

c.click = function(){
c.data.user.displayValue='';
c.data.user.value='';
c.data.short_description = '';

}

c.addItem = function(){
var user = c.data.user.value;
var desc = c.data.short_description;

if(user == '' || user == 'undefined' || user == 'null' || desc == 'null' || desc == '' || desc == 'undefined'){
alert('Please enter your name and a description of your issue before submitting.');
return;
}
var queueNumber = c.data.count; //this is where I need to put the value from the Server Script
spUtil.addInfoMessage('Thank you, a ticket has been created on your behalf. You are number '+queueNumber+' in the queue. You will now be redirected to the Tech Hub home screen.');

c.server.update().then(function(response){
c.data = {};
$scope.c.affected_user.value = '';
}) }
}