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safalkishore
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Power BI Visual calling into REST APIs

I am developing a sample power bi visual after following the article - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/visuals/custom-visual-develop-tutorial

 

I am trying to use the 'request' npm package on the 'visuals.ts' on the constructor and then call into a custom API like the sample code shown below:

 

 console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred
 console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
 console.log('body:', body); // Print the HTML for the Google homepage.
 });
 
I encounter an error on the 'pbiviz start' phase while trying the above. 
 
Hence trying to check if this is allowed and how I could go about looking up the build error
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safalkishore
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Also tried setting the library as shown on this page - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerBI-visuals/blob/master/Tutorial/ExternalLibraries.md#including-jav...

 

    },
    "externalJS": [
        "node_modules/request/request.js"
      ],
 
Yet the error persists

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