Question

I am working in a Mobile project (using Titanium Studio), in which i have the below situation

1) My Mobile app contacts Rails backend to check some data, say check validity of a
user id.

2) I found a way to load web pages in Mobile app, i.e., WebView

3) I could able to load the desired url, ex http://www.mydomain.com/checkuser?uid=20121
which would return data like status:success

But i need to read this data to show whether the response from server is a success or failure, how do i achieve this?

NOTE : The above mentioned scenario is an usecase, but actually what happens is i load a third party url in WebView and when user enters the data and submits, the result will be posted back to my website url.

EDIT : So the process is like below

1) WebView loaded with third party url like http://www.anyapiprovider.com/processdata

2) User will enter set of data in this web page and submits the page

3) The submitted data will be processed by the apiprovider and it returns data to my web page say http://www.mydomain.com/recievedata

This is the reason why i am not directly using GET using HTTPClient
FYI : I tried to fire Ti.APP events right from the actual web page as suggested by few articles, but most of them says this will work only if the file loaded is in local and not a remote file. Reference Link

Please suggest me if my approach has to be improved.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you don’t want to follow Josiah’s advice, then take a look at the Titanium docs on how to add a webview.addEventListener('load',... event listener and use webview.evalJS() to inject your own code into the third party HTML.

Maybe you can inject code to trap the submit event and fire a Ti event to trigger the downloading of data from your website.

Communication Between WebViews and Titanium – Remote Web Content Section