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APIs

Posted by Renee Rosquites
Renee Rosquites
5,837 Points

I want to build an app that sends XML commands to a Cisco Telepresence API CLI using JavaScript..

But I'm not sure where to start. It'd be my first coding project :)

Right now, my colleagues are able to login to a web interface built by Cisco which has a built in API CLI, secured with authentication. However, it would take a lot of line execution to do what we need to do and a lot of referencing of XML commands. What I'd like to do is make a simple app for this to be done (enter in endpoint credentials (basically the IP of the unit) and 'connect to endpoint', 'start call', 'call endpoint', 'end call', etc).

Since I found a document consisting of XML commands that I can send as strings, I ended up using Postman. I was able to use Postman to generate a code that runs on NodeJS but I'm unsure of how to functionally use that since I'd have to keep rewriting (or in this case, generating) a new code for every endpoint and command that I connect or send to.

I just want to create a simple interface for this app, heck, even simple HTML without any styling would do. It'd just be nice to present this app to my workplace.

Any support would help tons! Thanks!