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hi everybody, quick question...

What is the best way to push data out of netsuite to a third party REST service? (for example....Everytime an invoice is created, i want to connect to a REST service using user and pass auth, and post some information)

i was thinking using <http://https.post|https.post> module ....however not sure how to authenticate

an integration platform is always a nice choice if you want a consistent interface

otherwise the authentication has more to do with the service, rarely do you have a choice

if you are writing this yourself, the primary choices are a user event script or a map/reduce/scheduled script

user event scripts affects performance greatly, so determine if they are appropiate

If its not time critical (real time) use a SS/MR else UE. OR pist info from to a log record and then process it so you can retry if it fails

You can do this purely in SS but you don't get the benefit of middleware to 'guarantee' delivery, provide queueing etc.