I want Help Integrating External API with ColdBox.

Hey everyone,

I am working on project in ColdBox & hit a bit of a wall when trying to integrate with an external REST API. I have managed to set up the basic API call using CFHTTP but I am not quite sure how to handle responses cleanly within my ColdBox handlers or services. I keep thinking I am overcomplicating things.

Has anyone here done something similar & could maybe point me to a clean example or best practices for this? I want to know about structuring the response & handling errors inside a ColdBox app.

Also, slightly off-topic but I have been brushing up on some backend concepts through a Golang Training I took helpful when thinking about performance & structuring API logic, even in CFML. Also i have check this ColdBox - Serve HTML and REST API still need your help.

I appreciate your advice or links.

Thank you…:slight_smile:

Hi @Giuliaya

You can see our s3 sdk here: GitHub - coldbox-modules/s3sdk: An Amazon S3 SDK for ColdFusion/CFML and the ColdBox Platform

You can see it uses mostly http calls and abstracts them out. This can help.