XPath Support for Webhooks?

Question

I'm really trying to avoid making a particular solution more complicated than it needs to be by using a webhook rather than an API to update some lead information that's being transmitted via XML. In this particular case, the structure looks something like

<apple_type>Gala</apple_type>

<orange_type>Navel</orange_type>

</level3>

</level2>

</level1>

Nothing particularly rocket science is attempting to be accomplished here: all I'm trying to do is pull apple_type when orange_type is Navel. Normally with XPath I'd just do something like

/level1/level2/level3[orange_type/text() = "Navel"]/apple_type/text()

However, it doesn't seem like Marketo can use that sort of markup for a response. Because I have multiple potential level3 tags, I can't rely on just turning the query into something that can just look for the order of the tag. Is there any sort of recourse here or am I going to have to make this into a formal API call to place the apple_type data into a field?

SanfordWhiteman · Accepted Answer

Nothing like this can be done with native response processing AFAIK. You could use Apigee (in contrast, AWS APIGW is bad at this) to transform the data if you didn't want to write your own transforming layer, but that might be more trouble than it's worth.

Anonymous · Answer

I think you will have to write your own 'webhook' middle layer to extract appropriate information from the xml.

If you just want to display that information in an email, Velocity scripting might have some XPath functionality you can use.

Rajesh

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