qie.postMessageResponse

Signature: qie.postMessageResponse(response)

Returns: Boolean responsePosted - true = response successfully posted, false = response did not post

Posts a response to the original message sender (an acknowledgement message).

Note

This function should only be used in scripts where the 'message' object is available.

Example when the source node is an HTTP Listener:

  var response = "HTTP Status: 404\r\n";

  response += "http.header.Content-Type=text/plain\r\n";

  response += "http.header.myToken=ABCDEF\r\n";

  response += "\r\n";

  response += "This is my payload";

  qie.postMessageResponse(response);

Note

See this KB article for examples posting a response.

Parameters

Type	Name	Description	Default
String or byte[]	response	the response to be sent to the sending system

Example

// postMessageResponse Examples:
// Example: response as String
if (qie.awaitingMessageResponse()) {
   var responsePosted = qie.postMessageResponse(
      "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" +
      "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n" +
      "\r\n" +
      "I knew you were waiting for me."
   );
}


// Example: response as byte[]
if (qie.awaitingMessageResponse()) {
   var responseBytes = [
      72,84,84,80,47,49,46,49,32,50,48,48,32,79,75,13,10,
      67,111,110,116,101,110,116,45,84,121,112,101,58,32,116,101,120,116,47,112,108,97,105,110,13,10,
      13,10,
      73,32,107,110,101,119,32,121,111,117,32,119,101,114,101,32,119,97,105,116,105,110,103,32,102,111,114,32,109,101,46
   ]; // HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\nI knew you were waiting for me.

   var responsePostedWithBytes = qie.postMessageResponse(responseBytes);
}