jQuery call to get beacons list from Estimote cloud REST API

1

Hi,
How can I retrieve my accounts associated beacons list from https://cloud.estimote.com/v1/beacons REST api?

I am using this way but I am always facing cross-origin errors:

$.ajax({
                    url: 'https://cloud.estimote.com/v1/beacons',
                    type: 'GET',
                    xhrFields: {
                        withCredentials: true
                    },
                   headers: {
                       'Authorization': 'Basic ' + btoa('myAppID:myAppSecret')
                   },
                    crossDomain: true,
                    accepts: {
                        json: 'application/json'
                    }
                }).done(function (data) {
                    console.debug(data);                
                }).error(function (httpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown)
                {
                    console.debug("errorThrown=" + errorThrown);
                });

I tried for few hours with lots of different ways but never got to it.

Thanks!

Sylvain Audet
MyDevPartner.com

2

You cannot make an AJAX call in a web-browser from one domain (e.g., myserver.com) to another (e.g., cloud.estimote.com), that’s by design. You can read more about it here:

You should still be able to make the request to Estimote Cloud API outside a web-browser, e.g., from your backend.

What do you want to use the list of beacons for?

3

Thanks for your reply Piotr.
You are right, we’d rather change the approach to call the API from our backend instead of front-end ajax call.

The idea is to pre-populate our DB with our devices available from the Estimote cloud.

-Sylvain