Accessing experimental features of xLocate server

[kgrudzinski]

Hello,

Is there a way to access experimental features of xLocate server by means of XLocateClient? I could not find in documentation how to include xlocate-client.js.

[matthias]

With the 2.0 Release of xServer it is unfortunatly not possible to access the experimental features using the deployed client. You will have to access it yourself using tools like jquery. See the documentation in section Developers Guide -> Using xserver with Javascript -> Generating clients. Make sure you use the experimental URL like http://your_server_ip:port/services/rs/XLocate/experimental.

The good news is that starting with the 2.1 release it will be possible to use the deployed client with experimental APIs! Then you can simply create the client like this:

var xlocate = new XLocateClient("experimental");

Best regards,
Matthias

[kgrudzinski]

I have a follow up question. I am using PTV xServer INTERNET so I replaced http://your_server_ip:port/ from Your answer with https://xserver2-europe-test.cloud.ptvgroup.com/ and I am getting 403 forbidden error. I suspect it is caused by bad authentication. I followed this example but it does not seem to work.
My code looks like this:

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var newSearch = function(locateUrl, text, token) {
		var url = locateUrl+'locations/'+text;
		
		$.ajax({
			url: url,
			type: "GET",
			headers: {
				"Authorization": "Basic " + btoa("xtok:" + token)
			},
	 
			success: function(data, status, xhr) { 
				console.log(data); 
			},
	 
			error: function(xhr, status, error) { 
				console.log(error); 
			}
		});
		
}

What is the proper way of authenticating my request?

[f.gailfuß]

Basic authentication is used for POST requests; For GET requests, the token is simply provided through the request parameter "xtok" like this:

https://xserver2-europe-test.cloud.ptvg ... our-token>

Best regards,
Frank

[kgrudzinski]

Everything works now. Thank you for your help.