How to setup Proxy when making outbound REST calls in a Gel script?

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

You want to interface Clarity On-Prem with an external REST API.

However when making API call from Clarity - the response is always NULL/Blank. 

How can you enable a proxy server?

Environment

Release : 16.0.3, 16.1, 16.1.1

Resolution

Here is a partial sample that may help

  <core:new className="java.net.InetSocketAddress" var="socketAddress">
    <core:arg type="java.lang.String" value="proxy.example.com"/>
    <core:arg type="java.lang.Integer" value="80"/>
  </core:new>
  
<core:getStatic var="proxyType" className="java.net.Proxy.Type" field="HTTP"/>

<core:new className="java.net.Proxy" var="httpProxy">
  <core:arg type="java.net.Proxy.Type" value="${proxyType}"/>
  <core:arg type="java.net.InetSocketAddress" value="${socketAddress}"/>
</core:new>​

<core:new className="java.net.Proxy" var="httpProxy">
  <core:arg type="java.net.Proxy.Type" value="${proxyType}"/>
  <core:arg type="java.net.InetSocketAddress" value="${socketAddress}"/>
</core:new>​

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