XMLHttpRequest is not defined error - REST

[brostoff17]

I am trying to do a POST request via REST.   I code the same javascript from the REST Explorer in ServiceNow, but am getting a "XMLHttpRequest is not defined" (line 7) error when I try and run the code in a workflow script.   Any ideas how to fix this?

var token = "XXX";
var currentEmail = current.variables.email;
var channels = current.variables.channels;
var requestBody = ""; 
var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
client.open("post",'https://slack.com/api/users.admin.invite?token=' + token + '&' + 'email=' + currentEmail + '&' + 'channels=' + channels);
client.setRequestHeader('Accept','application/json');
client.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','application/json');
//Eg. UserName="admin", Password="admin" for this code sample.
//client.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Basic '+btoa('admin'+':'+'admin'));
client.onreadystatechange = function() { 
if(this.readyState == this.DONE) {
document.getElementById("response").innerHTML=this.status + this.response; 
}
}; 
client.send(requestBody);

[lakshminarayan4]

Hi,

The script is running from server context. So XMLHTTPRequest is only available in browser only. you can use REST API.

Outbound REST Web Service - ServiceNow Wiki

Thanks

[Bryan Tay3 · Accepted solution]

hi Josh,

Have you tried the rest api code from ServiceNow Scripts?

Mine working just find.

Code:

var request = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2();

request.setEndpoint('https://your_instance_name.service-now.com/api/now/table/incident?sysparm_limit=1');

request.setHttpMethod('GET');

//Eg. UserName="admin", Password="admin" for this code sample.

var user = 'xxxxxxx';

var password = 'xxxxxx';

request.setBasicAuth(user,password);

request.setRequestHeader("Accept","application/json");

var response = request.execute();

gs.log(response.getBody());

Hope this helps.