IS THERE ANYTHING LIKE WEBHOOK IN NETSUITE?! AND HOW DOES ONE BUILD IT?!

You build it using mixed case, not all upper case.

If you are trying to receive a webhook in Netsuite, you would setup a RESTlet and then send your webhook to the RESTlet url. If you want to send a webhook from Netsuite, then you would need to use the HTTPS module in SuiteScript. You can use the HTTPS module on both server and client scripts.

RESTlets require authentication that most 'webhooks' can't handle.

you are very lucky if you can get away with using suitelets as a webhook

My use case specifically was to have Netsuite POST messages to an app I've been building. Most of what I find is about putting stuff into Netsuite. I tried using some Suitescript on a workflow before but it didn't work. I'm not sure if something was written or configured wrong. I'd be happy to review some guides if anyone has them. @thread

if its the other direction and you are sending data to a webhok, you have better choices

What I have right now is a realtime Elixir application that receive and deal with POST messages easily. I have about 8 SaaS softwares connected to it. With regards to Netsuite, it's primary use right now is to synchronize the status of a Job in Netsuite to a Deal in Hubspot. Right now my application mirrors the entire Netsuite database into itself via Netsuite's REST API. With the way that is working, I'm not liking having to poll Netsuite for information. I'd rather be able to handle live updates rather than evaluating the whole poll result within my application.

In case you are looking for a solution that does not require SuiteScript, you might consider using Zapier to "Trigger" when a record is added to a saved search or when a record is submitted. Then you could have the next step in the "Zap" send the data to your webhook url. We use this product to connect Zapier with Netsuite. https://in8sync.com/zapier-netsuite-integration/

God that is expensive... But this is the most practical way to get live events out of Netsuite? @Shane Brown

I don't know that it's the most practical way, but I do believe this is the cheapest option that does not involve SuiteScript. There are many integration platforms that can get data from Netsuite, but most of them are very expensive (Boomi, Celigo, Jitterbit, Workato, etc.) When you look at the subscription cost for Zapier plus that in8sync connector, it ends up being much cheaper. Currently the in8sync connector has a trigger for "When a new record is created/updated", "When a new record is added to a saved search". You can optionally include "Date Last Modified" in the search results to also trigger when a record on the search is modified.

I'm curious how they implement

when a new recordi is added to a saved search

I believe they hit a RESTlet every 5 mins. The RESTlet contains the logic but it is a locked bundle so I can't see the details.

They'd need a mad tier with Netsuite API right? Or are they using SOAP

They are not using SOAP. We currently have 1 Netsuite Cloud Plus license and it's been sufficient. I think this will largely depend on how often you are checking Netsuite.

my favored joke solution would be to implment integration be email update alerts

The APM tool in Netsuite is very helpful for determining if there will be issues with concurrency/request limits

the second is a scheduled solution like map/reduce scripts or actual scheduled scripts

@battk I'm down to implement in SuiteScript. Given what @Shane Brown had mentioned, I was also starting to consider an Elixir GenServer that can poll netsuite every 5 mins. Right now mine polls every hour, a limit I set arbitrarily with a solution that at first required pulling in every Job and querying up a few records to get other parent IDs about it.

there are occasionally hybrids of the two if the performance hit from a user event is undesirable

The user event script sounds interesting and more for the realtime that I'm looking to facilitate.

They start to lag stuff?

you pay for whatever logic you do in realtime

In my case, I'd really just want to be able to POST to my app where it can make additional queries and computations away from Netsuite.

the only thing about https.post's documentation is that its example is deceptive

How do you mean?

the

headerObj

it uses is two headers, the name and the value headers

So it should be the latter? A single header to have a properly formed POST?

thats extra wrong

Hm... Should it be

var headerObj = { "Accept-Language": "en-us" }

?

thats what you would want if you wanted a header named

Accept-Language

with a value of

en-us

Thank you a ton @battk and @Shane Brown this has been helping out a ton! I'll need some time to study.