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The Response

Use the Response page to read the returned data from the service through the TRESTResponse class.

Item	Description
lbl_LastRequestURL TLabel	Displays the BaseURL property of TRESTClient.
lbl_LastRequestStats TLabel	Contains information about: response status - displays the StatusCode, StatusText and ContentLength properties of TRESTResponse execution performance - displays timing information: PreProcessingTime : time from starting the execution until the request is handed over to the the actual http client and sent to the server ExecutionTime : time since the request is sent to the server and until the response is received PostProcessingTime : time from receiving the server response until all post processing work is done(including JSON parsing) TotalExecutionTime : the total execution time - the sum of PreProcessingTime, ExecutionTime and PostProcessingTime
lbl_ProxyState TLabel	Specifies if the Proxy-server is enabled or not.

Headers

The response header contains pairs of (key=value) and has information such as date, size and type of file that the server sends to the client and also data about the server itself.

The HTTP header fields retrieved by the server differ from an API to another.

Note: For more information about header fields, see this link.

Item	Description
memo_ResponseHeader TMemo	Displays the Headers property of TRESTResponse.

Body

The response holds all the returned data from the service. The data includes the HTTP status code, error messages (if these exist) and the returned JSON data.

The response data can be accessed using one of the properties: Content, JSONValue or RAWbytes.

Item	Description
LabelJSON TLabel	Specifies if: the content has a JSON representantion or not the JSON root element is an invalid one
JSON Root Element	Represents the RootElement property of TRESTResponse. Insert the wanted root element into EditRootElement TClearingEdit.
memo_ResponseBody TMemo	Displays all the returned data from the service, situated right after the header.
Apply button	Limits the contents of the response body shown, based on RootElement property.

Tabular Data

A JSON formed response of a service can be transformed into any TDataSet-descendant class with a dataset adapter.

Each JSON object will be a new record in the dataset. The properties of the JSON object(s) will typically form the columns of the dataset.

Item	Description
StringGrid1 TStringGrid	Shows the response organized as a dataset.