Hey, I am preparing and return the xml format in Restlet, however, it is displaying as a text. can anyone have an idea? How to prepare a xml to send as a response? will netsuite support xml response?

well xml is text, so as json. on the other end, the endpoint parses and consumes the data.

@leo_ns My user requested the XML, since they are using another api using xml

that's fine. they need to see the returned xml text, then be able to parse, convert to object, whatever. it's just text, no rocket science https://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xml

@leo_ns Here I am preparing the xml, however, it is returning a text. ex: <xml><id>1</id></xml> final result is : 1

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/netsuite/ns-online-help/section_4344917661.html#N%2Fxml-Module unverified code

/**
 * @NApiVersion 2.x
 * @NScriptType Restlet
 * @NModuleScope SameAccount
 */

define(['N/xml'], function(xml) {

    function getPersonData() {
        // Define person data
        var personData = {
            id: 1,
            name: "Jayaram"
        };

        // Create XML document
        var xmlDoc = xml.createDocument();
        var rootNode = xmlDoc.createElement({
            name: 'person'
        });

        // Create child elements for person data
        var idNode = xmlDoc.createElement({
            name: 'id'
        }).textContent = personData.id;

        var nameNode = xmlDoc.createElement({
            name: 'name'
        }).textContent = personData.name;

        // Append child elements to the root node
        rootNode.appendChild(idNode);
        rootNode.appendChild(nameNode);

        xmlDoc.appendChild(rootNode);

        // Serialize XML document to string
        var xmlString = xmlDoc.toString();

        return xmlString;
    }

    function doGet() {
        return getPersonData();
    }

    return {
        get: doGet
    };

});

@leo_ns Thanks for your info. However, xml module doesn't have createDocument() function. can i know from where you found this code?

🤣 chatgpt. famously making sh*t up on the fly. sorry

oh.No problem, chatgpt wont give proper information.

https://blog.prolecto.com/2020/09/06/the-easy-way-to-generate-netsuite-xml-files/ according to this "There is no easy native way to generate XML (or JSON files) in NetSuite"

Except restlet, remaining all script xml is supporting

i heard others say you can upload external javascript libraries in the file cab. then in your code, reference it. I can do light scripting. not a hardcore coder.

my concern , even we can use external library, i am thinking will it return xml.

If you know you are sending xml and want your response as xml, make sure your content type in your request header is the same, ie. text/xml or application/xml.

@Emanuel V I tried, its not working on restlet var xmlStr = '?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?'; xmlStr+='internalid123/internalid' xmlStr+='/xml' var headers = {}; headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/xml'; return { body: xmlStr, headers: headers };