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I am trying to pass the list as a paramter in the API.contents() function for which I am creating a parameters function using meta. If I created a single parameter then it works fine but if I am creating a function for multiple parameters I get below error.
What can i do to solve this issue. Any lead would be appreciated.
Code -
section User_API_Param;
[DataSource.Kind="User_API_Param", Publish="User_API_Param.Publish"]
shared User_API_Param.Contents = Value.ReplaceType(parameters, ScopeType);
ScopeType = type function (
message as (type text meta [
Documentation.FieldCaption = "Limit",
Documentation.FieldDescription = "Enter a limit",
Documentation.SampleValues = {"1", "2"}
]),
name as (type list meta [
Documentation.FieldCaption = "limit range",
Documentation.AllowedValues = { "1", "2", "3" }
]))
as any;
parameters = (limit as text, optional limitrange as list) =>
let
accesstoken = Extension.CurrentCredential()[Key],
baseUrl = "https://api.example.com/",
endpoint = "/users",
Headers = [
Authorization = "Bearer " & accesstoken
],
source = Web.Contents(baseUrl,[RelativePath = endpoint & "?limit=" & limit, Headers = Headers, ManualCredentials = true]),
Value = Json.Document(source),
data = Value[data],
ToTable = Table.FromList(data, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
ExpandCol = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(ToTable, "Column1", {"id", "name", "email", "authType", "roles"}, {"id", "name", "email", "authType", "roles"}),
Roles = Table.ExpandListColumn(ExpandCol, "roles"),
RolesData = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(Roles, "roles", {"role"}, {"role"}),
ExtractRoles = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(RolesData, "role", {"id", "name"}, {"id.1", "name.1"}),
RenameRoles = Table.RenameColumns(ExtractRoles,{{"id.1", "Role_id"}, {"name.1", "Role"}})
in
RenameRoles;
// Data Source Kind description
User_API_Param = [
Authentication = [
Key = []
// UsernamePassword = [],
// Windows = [],
// Implicit = []
],
Label = Extension.LoadString("DataSourceLabel")
];
// Data Source UI publishing description
User_API_Param.Publish = [
Beta = true,
Category = "Other",
ButtonText = { Extension.LoadString("ButtonTitle"), Extension.LoadString("ButtonHelp") },
LearnMoreUrl = "https://powerbi.microsoft.com/",
SourceImage = User_API_Param.Icons,
SourceTypeImage = User_API_Param.Icons
];
User_API_Param.Icons = [
Icon16 = { Extension.Contents("User_API_Param16.png"), Extension.Contents("User_API_Param20.png"), Extension.Contents("User_API_Param24.png"), Extension.Contents("User_API_Param32.png") },
Icon32 = { Extension.Contents("User_API_Param32.png"), Extension.Contents("User_API_Param40.png"), Extension.Contents("User_API_Param48.png"), Extension.Contents("User_API_Param64.png") }
];
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